Marcellinus Quotes

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising?

Greg Giraldo

#5. Truth is often attended with danger.

Ammianus Marcellinus

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#7. Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.

Martyn

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#9. How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Virginia Woolf

#10. I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

Cher Lloyd

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#13. I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Jenny Eclair

#14. What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

Eric Fischl

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#16. Can't never did anything, until he tried.

F. Lee Hayslip

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#18. God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Ammianus Marcellinus

#20. We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick