Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes

#1. Perhaps if you'd been willing to experience love and had had a few years of happiness, you might have amounted to something. As it is, your life is rather pathetic. What a waste.

Colleen Houck

#2. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Tacitus

#3. Caesar declared that an orator should 'avoid an unusual word as the helmsman of a ship avoided a reef'.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#4. Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#5. Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

Tammy Bruce

#6. You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life.

Linda Thompson

#7. If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brian Tracy

#8. Tradition maintained that Rome had been founded in 753 BC. For the Romans this was Year One and subsequent events were formally dated as so many years from the 'foundation of the city' (ab urbe condita).

Adrian Goldsworthy

#9. Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

Peter Higgs

#10. For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

Adrian Goldsworthy

#11. The rates of venereal disease soared and the 82nd Airborne opened a medically certified brothel in Trapani under a supervising officer soon known as the Madam;

Rick Atkinson

#12. Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Adrian Goldsworthy

#13. Julia. At the most basic level a Roman husband had only to utter the phrase 'take your things for yourself' (tuas res tibi habeto) to separate from his wife.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#14. Because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.

Holly Black

#15. Boarding a ship was one of the riskiest maneuvers in naval combat. It was basically a race between the boarders rushing to the engine room and the collective will of those who had their fingers on the self-destruct button.

James S.A. Corey

#16. He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One

Leonard Gardner

#17. By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#18. Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#19. I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Natalie Merchant

#20. Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

Sheikh Abdullah

#21. Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#22. Roman women kept their name throughout their lives, and did not change it on marriage.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#23. Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

Jeanne Moreau

#24. As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3

Adrian Goldsworthy

#25. The tribune was betrayed by one of his own slaves and killed.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#26. Foreigner is a word created by guilt and the fears, ignorance, and weaknesses of your own ego.

Ben Tolosa

#27. The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#28. It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

Chris Weitz

#29. Quite openly, voters selected on the basis of perceived character and past behaviour rather than the views a candidate expressed. Where an individual's nature was not obvious, the Roman people tended to be drawn to a famous name, for there was a sense that virtue and ability were inherited.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#30. (Sulla gave the slave his freedom and then had the man thrown to his death

Adrian Goldsworthy