Cicero Philippics Quotes & Sayings

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. — Chuck Palahniuk

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on. — John Wooden

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything. — Paul Buchheit

Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His. — Jerry Bridges

I'm not great at talking about myself. — Kathleen Kennedy

Parents of young children are always acting. You act excited to read a story for the five-hundredth time. You act impressed someone went to the bathroom on the toilet. The excitement I show to some of the children's scribbles should get me a Golden Globe nomination. — Jim Gaffigan

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson

I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man's attention and care ... [My father] insisted that I learn to do the hand labor that the land required, knowing
and saying again and again
that the ability to do such work is the source of a confidence and an independence of character that can come no other way, not by money, not by education. — Wendell Berry

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense. — George Bernard Shaw

She gave him a cold and enraged glare. 'You are so pathetic, you make me want to vomit. — Morgan Rhodes

The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc Antony, whom he thought was irreparably dismantling the Republic of Rome. Those speeches are powerful because they're not only really pointed but they're thrillingly beautiful - and that's precisely what made them dangerous: the fact that people wanted to read them. — John D'Agata

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. — Kurt Cobain

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. — Ken Follett

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. — Alain Ducasse

I'm not a coward," I say. "I don't run." "Then walk." I — J.M. Darhower