Tacitus Quotes

We accomplish more by prudence than by force.

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writer

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Place
  • Games
  • Him

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Time
  • Think
  • Service

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • World
  • Together
  • Future

• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Business
  • Profession
  • Egocentric

• I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

  

  Aaron John Boone
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• A life is not a waste of time

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Life
  • Time

• Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Force
  • Truths
  • Illusions

• When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Force
  • Anarchy
  • Horrors

• It now appears we are past the worse of this virus, the peak so far, whilst death rates sadly remain high they are falling on a rolling basis, the number of hospital admissions are falling as well so we can start to look to the future.

  

  Oliver Dowden
  • Future
  • Rates
  • VIrus

• I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty of requests from viewers, which is great. I can never run out of ideas!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Beauty

• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Childhood
  • Trials
  • Adolescence

• We accomplish more by prudence than by force.

  

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