Tacitus Quotes
For I deem it to be the chief function of history to rescue merit from oblivion, and to hold up before evil words and evil deeds the terror of the reprobation of posterity.
Quotes to Explore
-
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
-
I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
-
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
-
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
-
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
-
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
-
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
-
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
-
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
-
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
-
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
-
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
-
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
-
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
-
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
-
Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
-
For I deem it to be the chief function of history to rescue merit from oblivion, and to hold up before evil words and evil deeds the terror of the reprobation of posterity.
