Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • School
  • Kids
  • American

• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • City
  • Gun

• I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Principles

• An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Kind
  • Author
  • Worst

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Always
  • Will
  • Constitution

• Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Nervous

• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Live
  • Research

• I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Think
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• The only people who object to escapism are jailers.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People

• One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Death

• This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Path

• You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • Movie

• Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

  

  Hannah Teter
  • Putin

• No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Responsibility
  • English

• At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.

  

  John Schnatter
  • Good
  • Business
  • Running

• Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero