Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Fact
  • Brothers
  • Clown

• Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • You
  • Hate

• The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Happiness
  • Being
  • Greatest

• There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Everything
  • Now
  • Wrestling

• It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Women
  • School

• Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Brother

• I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Passion

• How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • She
  • Today
  • Value

• Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Good
  • Bad

• Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Power

• You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • World
  • Perfect

• They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Black

• In a well-made garden every day is new.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Garden

• You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Films
  • Convinced
  • Tales

• The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

  

  Buenaventura Durruti
  • World
  • History

• If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero