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

• The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Singing

• As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Soul

• As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Immigration

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

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero