Tacitus Quotes
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Quotes to Explore
-
People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
-
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
-
In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
-
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
-
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
-
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
-
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
-
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
-
In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
-
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
-
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
-
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
-
I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
-
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
-
I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
-
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
-
I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
-
While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.
-
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
-
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
-
When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
-
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
