Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes

There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

Ammianus Marcellinus

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• I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Mom
  • Hard
  • Accent

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• I've dealt with a lot in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Dealt

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I am a Westerner of Westerners!

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Westerner

• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way
  • Consequences
  • Statement

• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Standard

• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Passion
  • Inspiration

• What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • School
  • Think
  • Working

• What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Art
  • Future

• I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Better
  • Say

• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Author

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Work
  • Think
  • Stop

• I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Shopping

• As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Support
  • Taken
  • Last

• Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • You
  • Search
  • Questions

• This announcement is very bad news, but the timing of action by the international community remains that agreed by the UN Security Council.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Announcement
  • Security Council
  • International Community

• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Character
  • Mirror
  • Property

• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

  

  Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Virtue
  • Will
  • Wrongdoing