Pompeius Quotes

#1. Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.

Theodor Mommsen

#2. Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

Plutarch

#3. Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with ... Stop trying to steer the river.

Deepak Chopra

#4. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

Herbert Stein

#5. The best kind of love finds you when you need it the most.

Shelly Crane

#6. America does not run on gas, oil, or coal any more than we may one day run on wind, solar, or tidal power. America runs on electricity.

Gretchen Bakke

#7. Have you ever wondered ... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists ... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.

Jimmy Hoffa

#9. I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

Simon Van Booy