Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
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• The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
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• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
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• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
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  • Army

• What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • May
  • True
  • Day

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Why
  • America
  • Relationship

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Why
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• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Mind
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  • Voice

• I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • God
  • Universe

• All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

  

  Charles Inglis
  • Soul
  • Dark

• All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Enjoy
  • Negro

• Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.

  

  Tommy James
  • Children
  • Peace
  • Brotherhood

• I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

  

  Na Hae Ryeong
  • Hurt

• O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero