Came Saw Conquered Quotes & Sayings

I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled. — Robert A. Heinlein

He continued to attack the gate. His arm started to ache. The hammer was designed for neither brute nor force.
"Are you all right up there?" asked Eleanor. "Want me to go see if I can find a small child to give you a lift?"
"Maybe if we swapped positions and you condescended at the gate, we'd get through faster? — Gary Meehan

I don't think I could ever live with either a man or a woman for a long time. Male and female are attractive to my mind, but when it comes to the sexual act I am afraid. In every situation I need a lot of stimulation before I am conquered by the forces of passion and lust. But confusion, before and after, is the dominant factor.
I dreamed many times about a mature man with experience who would have the vigour of a boy but an adult's polished methods. Strangely enough, I also dreamed about women of my mother's age who were ideal lovers. These dreams came superimposed on one another. Sometimes the masculine element was dominant, sometimes the feminine one. At other times I wasn't sure. I saw a female body with male organs or a male body with female ones. These pictures, blended together in my mind, occasionally brought pleasure but more often pain. — Adam Thirlwell

In short, caring is sharing, so ditch your milquetoast posts and say something that matters. — Keith Ferrazzi

How about I burn us some dinner before my shift starts. — Carrie Jones

Love contains no fear, because the mere presence of fear desecrates love and makes it something less than pure. (Imagine) you have two 5-gallon buckets. In one you have 2 gallons of pure water (Love) and in the other you have 2 gallons of toxic waste (Fear). If you dip 1 gallon of toxic waste and pour it into the water, what do you now have?

Two buckets of toxic waste. — Donald L. Hicks

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. — Jerry Seinfeld

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people. — Ronan Farrow

The past, like Lindsey had told him, is a logical story. IT's the sense of what happened, But since it is not yet remembered, the future need not make any fugging sense at all. — John Green

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does. — Helen Keller

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: I came, I saw, I conquered. — Plutarch

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Gaius Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Gaius Julius Caesar

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle — Arthur Quinn

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug. — William Gibson

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. — Francis Arinze

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered. — Stacy Schiff

I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales to sold out concerts. — Jay-Z

It is not people who are giving you the things you desire. If you
hold that false belief, you will experience lack, because you are
looking at the outside world and people as the supply. The true
supply is the invisible field, whether you call that the Universe, the
Supreme Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence, or whatever else. — Rhonda Byrne

It was quick work. He came, he saw, I conquered! — Jerome K. Jerome

Leaders began to profess their love of peace and to claim that war had been forced upon them.118 As Mueller notes, "No longer was it possible simply and honestly to proclaim like Julius Caesar, 'I came, I saw, I conquered.' Gradually this was changed to 'I came, I saw, he attacked me while I was just standing there looking, I won.' This might be seen as progress."119 — Steven Pinker