Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Ammianus Marcellinus

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• Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

  

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• I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.

  

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• The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

  

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• It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

  

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• A good cover has a distinct silhouette

  

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

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• That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Intuition
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• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Wounds
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• I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!

  

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• I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

  

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• This week there are a couple of changes to our tight five. The overall desire is to make sure we have heaps of energy in that area and to show a bit more enthusiasm this week.

  

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• The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

  

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• When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

  

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• Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

  

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• The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

  

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• When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

  

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• One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
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• A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

  

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• When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.

  

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• Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

  

  Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Deeds
  • Occupation
  • Impunity