Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

Cato the Younger

• Art
• Soul
• Impossible
• Concern
• Immortal
• Remembrance
• Persuasion

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Show
  • Would
  • Room

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • City
  • Young

• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Sweet
  • Walk

• The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Long

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

  Sallust

• The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • She

• Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Up

• Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Art
  • Power

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Believe

• One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Identity
  • California

• I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • World

• You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Work
  • Respond
  • Improvise

• I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Today
  • Game
  • Road

• If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Music
  • Death

• The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Behavior
  • Discover
  • Victim

• I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Art
  • Born
  • Parent

• This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Impossible