Ammianus Quotes

#1. Plan for the difficult while it is still easy. The greatest things in the world are done while still slight. So wise leaders never do big things; that's how they achieve greatness.

Lao-Tzu

#2. The more time I spent in his arms, the more whole I felt. I could live in the moment.
Right here.
Right now.
I'm home.

Pepper Winters

#3. Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#4. There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#5. Why worry about things you have no control over?

John Russell

#6. Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Truth is often attended with danger.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#8. Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#9. I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Eden Sher

#10. Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#11. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

Gideon Welles

#12. I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

Kanye West

#13. Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#14. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#15. We did sometimes play jokes on each other. It was fun, until about a month ago when he attacked me with nerf guns when I walked in the door. I slipped while running away and fell on the coffee table. Let's just say I wouldn't be winning the most graceful woman's award any time soon.

Jessica Florence

#16. It's a little bit like a cow listening to a recipe for beef stew.

M.R. Carey

#17. The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#18. It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Mark McKinnon

#19. It is not fit to spin out history with petty details.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#20. No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

Ammianus Marcellinus

#21. Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

Evo Morales

#22. No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#23. With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Martin Parr

#24. Yes, if by 'sacred' they mean 'tacky,' and by 'hill' they mean 'gift shop,' then by all means, it is one helluva sacred hill.

Natasha Wittman