Tacitus Quotes

Conspicuous by his absence.

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• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fake

• Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

  

  Umera Ahmed
  • Time
  • Good
  • Nature

• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Daughter
  • Lawyer
  • Africa

• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Anglers
  • BattlesPanic

• Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Hope
  • Evidence
  • Wanting

• The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Saints
  • Meant

• The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Existence
  • States

• The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

  

  Avicenna
  • Brilliant
  • Lightning
  • Disappears

• Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Energy
  • Worst
  • Discovery

• My fans want me with my hair.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Hair
  • Fans

• Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Pretend
  • Not Alone

• There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

  

  Moliere
  • Heart
  • Secret
  • Actions

• I love Carrie Fisher, and it would be amazing to carry on her legacy.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Amazing
  • Legacy
  • Would

• If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Music
  • Silence
  • Tragedy

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

  

  Lord John Russell
  • Lord
  • Absence
  • Bills

• In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • World
  • Dignity
  • Absence

• Conspicuous by his absence.

  

  Tacitus
  • Absence
  • Conspicuous