Tacitus Quotes

One who is allowed to sin, sins less.

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• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Politicians
  • Corrupt

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • May
  • Age
  • Die

• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mind

• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
  • Important
  • Light

• If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you – I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Bored
  • Meat
  • Carrots

• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Evil

• I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Obsessed
  • Suffered
  • Grades

• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Playing
  • Sins

• He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Sins
  • Receive

• Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Remember
  • Sins
  • The Lord

• One who is allowed to sin, sins less.

  

  Tacitus
  • Sins
  • Allowed