Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Process
  • Discovery

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Creative

• Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Screen
  • Cringe
  • Pouty

• I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Action
  • Thought

• I was small but slow as a college tackle.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Small
  • College
  • Slow

• You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Start
  • Planning

• People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • She
  • Humanity

• Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.

  

  E. W. Howe

• Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Kindness

• People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Architecture

• Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Beauty
  • Exhaustion
  • Pays

• It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

  

  Dinah Sheridan
  • Music

• Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.

  

  Max Winkler
  • Funny
  • Humanity

• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • May

• For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero