Top 33 Quotes About The Rubicon
#1. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy
#2. I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(aesar) did, and once the Rubicon is crossed, there can be no turning back (Meto, Caesar's scribe, to his father Gordianus the Finder)
Steven Saylor
#3. Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.
Bryant McGill
#4. Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Max Muller
#5. I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.
Mildred Aldrich
#6. Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."
John Adams
#7. Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#8. One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.
Tom Stoppard
#9. Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.
Rick Riordan
#10. I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination.
Rex Pickett
#11. You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side.
Chloe Thurlow
#12. There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half
shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the
shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.
William Shakespeare
#13. You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.
'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'
~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.
Lisa Kleypas
#14. With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
Christopher McQuarrie
#15. Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.
John Blacking
#16. When I look back at the last decade, I think the following: There are some very wealthy people, but a lot of their incomes are from financial innovations that do not translate to gains for the average American citizen.
Tyler Cowen
#17. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself
Adrienne Woods
#18. The pages turned by themselves as the fan moved through its arc and then stopped to reveal the crossword puzzle page. The answer to four across - '7 letters. Caesar's crossing caused certain war?' - had been neatly completed in blue ink. 'Rubicon.
Duncan Simpson
#19. Red Lake must be his Rubicon. Either he must enter the unknown to seek, to strive, to find, or turn back and fail and never know and be always haunted.
Zane Grey
#20. Thayli, you are very brave. Are you cunning, too?
Richard Adams
#21. Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
Jacquie Phelan
#22. When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.
Michael C. Ruppert
#23. The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.
James Badge Dale
#24. The monkeys ignored him completely as they discussed wind currents and angle of approach, and even the Lion seemed to have forgotten he was there. He might as well be back in that field tied to a post for all the good the Wizard's gifts were doing him.
Danielle Paige
#25. Technology has robbed us of everything that made being human fun."
--Aristotle Leary
from Rubicon Harvest
C.W. Kesting
#27. He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon.
Jon Krakauer
#28. Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#29. Carefully measure the depth of water when crossing your Rubicon in life. The river was shallow when Julius Caesar crossed 2000 years ago.
Shahid Hussain Raja
#30. [M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.
Ann Coulter
#31. One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
Annie Parisse
#32. God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red.
John Connolly
