Proconsul Quotes

#1. We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost.

Immortal Technique

#2. Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

Alexander Cockburn

#4. I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.

Craig Brewer

#5. The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

Irving Stone

#6. Today is a gift.
Today is all I have.
I will be fully awake in today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

Ben Silbermann

#8. I wonder where she came from,
I wonder where she's gotta go.
Who's to say she's single
and who's to say she's on her own ...
Girls like that don't sleep alone

Herbie Hancock

#9. I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

Bear Grylls

#10. I'm not afraid of the dark.
I am. Humor me.

Joss Stirling

#11. The truth is people think that change in life is supposed to make you happy but in reality; change is scary".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa