Tacitus Quotes

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Having Fun

• I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Human
  • Theatre
  • Stage

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Want
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Angry

• I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Tomorrow

• If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Body
  • Something
  • Dangerous

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Ranch

• A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• It's one of the best feelings in the world to hit the quarterback like that, hear the crowd go crazy, and then to watch it on film. You look forward to those types of plays. The best part about it is that you never know when it's going to come. Every play you've got to go hard and every play you've got to think and believe that you're going to get that quarterback sack. If you don't get it that play it might be the next play so you've always got to be thinking about it, and when it comes, it's the best.

  

  Darrion Scott
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

  

  Gabriel Kolko
  • Men
  • Years
  • Hands

• The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Energy
  • Forever
  • Spirit

• Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Revenge
  • Injury