Tacitus Quotes
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
Ville Valo HIM
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
Tariq Ramadan
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
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Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
Ice Cube
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
Naomie Harris
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
Larry David
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
Kate Walsh
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
Kate Upton
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
Vincent Van Gogh
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The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.
E. O. Wilson
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When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
Peer Steinbruck
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choosing his scenes by: ..night vigils at the back window.
John French Sloan
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
Loudon Wainwright III
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Tacitus