Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
-
There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
-
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
-
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
-
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
-
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
-
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
-
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
-
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
-
People will always want a free lunch.
-
You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
-
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
-
I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.
-
Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
-
Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.
-
Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
-
Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.
-
On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.
-
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
-
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
-
Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.
-
You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.
-
The taller you are, the bigger your serve.
-
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
