Top 26 Nepos Quotes
#1. His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.
Anthony Everitt
#2. So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
Cornelius Nepos
#3. The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
#6. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
Cornelius Nepos
#9. In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#10. He's my never - the person who I should have ended up with, the one who shakes your soul, but timing was never right.
Renee Swann
#11. In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
Cornelius Nepos
#12. No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
Cornelius Nepos
#14. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].
Swami Vivekananda
#15. The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
Paul Valery
#17. Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos
#18. The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
George C. Marshall
#19. Who are you?'
One who has waited long for you to speak.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.
Kim Basinger
#23. Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!
Gloria Gaynor
#24. The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
Clay Shirky
#25. This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
Rebecca De Mornay