Ammianus Quotes & Sayings

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Truth is often attended with danger. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Damn skippy it's a flea collar. I'm not taking no chances. — Janet Evanovich

Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath. — Bob Arum

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. — Ammianus Marcellinus

And Lydia herself - the reluctant center of their universe - every day, she held the world together. She absorbed her parents' dreams, quieting the reluctance that bubbled up within. — Celeste Ng

Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren't coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of beer? Would I have to join AA? Become one of those frightening 12-step people? How the fuck could I write? My livelihood, my identity, my purpose, my light - all extinguished with the tightening of a screw cap. — Sarah Hepola

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other. — Ammianus Marcellinus

There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues. — Ammianus Marcellinus

This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live. — Amy Lane

It is not fit to spin out history with petty details. — Ammianus Marcellinus

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous. — Ammianus Marcellinus

A boy has never wept ... nor dashed a thousand kin — Dutch Schultz

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Then to the dance, and make the sober moon ... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon. — William Cowper

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other — Ammianus Marcellinus

Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes — Ammianus Marcellinus

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant. — Lemony Snicket

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further. — Tony Clark

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool. — Frank Sartor

Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:
'He ordered the priests of the different Christian sects, and their supporters to be admitted to the palace, and politely expressed his wish that, their quarrels being over, each might follow his own beliefs without hindrance or fear. He thought that freedom to argue their beliefs would simply deepen their differences, so that he would never be faced by a united common people. He found from experience that no wild beasts are as hostile to men, as Christians are to each other.' — Paul Johnson