Tacitus Quotes

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
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• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
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• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

  B. B. King
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• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
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• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
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• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
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• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  

  Warren Mitchell
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• There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
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• I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

  

  Ella Woodward
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• As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

  

  Mary Quant
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• Not everybody is some kind of media model.

  

  Phil McGraw
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• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

  

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