A Quote by Virgil

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Virgil

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Better Better Things Endure Present Things Watch

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Virgil
Roman - Poet
70 BC - 19 BC

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

Noah Hawley

I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.

Gaby Hoffmann

The present will not long endure.

Pindar

Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.

Eliza Haywood

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Samuel Johnson

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Gaby Hoffmann

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

Maria V. Snyder

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

George R. R. Martin

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Dan Castellaneta

I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes!