Tacito Quotes

#1. -tacito mala vota susiro concipimus"
-- Lucan v 94
With silent whisperings we,
For ill things supplicants be.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#2. While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Ovid

#3. Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Martin Buber

#4. Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

John Calvin

#5. The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.

Walter Lord

#6. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

Peter Pook

#7. Our mind speaks by the lips, but, our Hearts speaks through our actions.

Orosa Nakpil Malate

#8. Everything was falling into place. And out of place, at the same time.

Cynthia Hand

#9. I could put a book in his hands, but I couldn't take him by the ankles and dip him headfirst in another world. And for some reason, I knew even then that he needed it.

Rebecca Makkai

#10. Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Exactly," Guccio said. "The image I'm getting now is some fat alien lounging in a spherical spaceship, drinking a beer, watching The Wizard of Oz on TV, and yelling obscenities at the screen. I think I'd prefer a computer.

Al Macy

#12. You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better.

Kelly Moran

#13. We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

Bunker Roy

#14. You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

John Carpenter

#15. The Asterians didn't call themselves anything special, because when everyone else refers to you as the shining people, you really don't have to do it yourself.

Anne Ursu

#16. I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

Sigmar Polke

#17. The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Joe Namath