Marcellinus Quotes & Sayings

So, what it's like, Terry? Being a father."
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"It's like having a gun to your head all the time. Because I know if anything happens to her, anything, then my life is over. — Michael Connelly

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

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego. — Tim Fargo

Truth is often attended with danger. — Ammianus Marcellinus

Patience is a virtue and it's also a commitment — Marcelle Hinkson

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. — Rebecca De Mornay

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

I have this thing that whenever the slightest embarrassment happens I go bright red. Not in the attractive English-rose way; in the way that someone might glance over and stay 'Oh, how strange. A tomato with the body of a girl. — Liz Bankes

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. — Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

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

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

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual. — Pete Hamill

When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was. — Faith Hill

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

The less a creature thinks he is, the more he bears. And if he thinks he is nothing, he bears everything. — Antonio Porchia

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

Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally. — Alisa Hope Wagner

When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left. — Claire North

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. — Idries Shah

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

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

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip ... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are. — Truth Hurts