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Rubicon Quotes By Jane Porter

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. — Jane Porter

Rubicon Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Rubicon Quotes By Zane Grey

Red Lake must be his Rubicon. Either he must enter the unknown to seek, to strive, to find, or turn back and fail and never know and be always haunted. — Zane Grey

Rubicon Quotes By John Adams

Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination." — John Adams

Rubicon Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

In association with the ordinary run of men I have had but little to win or to lose ... My companions have with few exceptions exerted no marked influence on me ... So I am standing once more at the point where I must begin in another way. I shall now try to look calmly at myself and begin to act inwardly; for only in this way will I be able ... to call myself 'I' in a profounder sense ... So let the die be cast - I am crossing the Rubicon. This road no doubt leads me into battle, but I will not give up. — Soren Kierkegaard

Rubicon Quotes By Annie Parisse

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years. — Annie Parisse

Rubicon Quotes By John Green

Rather than be searched by hand, I chose to walk through the metal detector without my cart or my tank or even the plastic nubbins in my nose. Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I'd taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty amazing to walk unencumbered like that, stepping across the Rubicon, the machine's silence acknowledging that I was, however briefly, a nonmetallicized creature. I felt a bodily sovereignty that I can't really describe except to say that when I was a kid I used to have a really heavy backpack that I carried everywhere with all my books in it, and if I walked around with the backpack for long enough, when I took it off I felt like I was floating. — John Green

Rubicon Quotes By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rubicon Quotes By Christopher McQuarrie

With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise. — Christopher McQuarrie

Rubicon Quotes By James Badge Dale

The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end. — James Badge Dale

Rubicon Quotes By Rick Riordan

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes. — Rick Riordan

Rubicon Quotes By Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. — Tom Stoppard

Rubicon Quotes By Emil M. Cioran

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.
Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. If History had a goal, how lamentable would be the fate of those of us who have accomplished nothing!
On the frontiers of the self: 'What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I'. Events - tumours of time.
Man secretes disaster.
The secret of my adaptation to life? - I've changed despairs the way I've changed shirts. Each day is a Rubicon in which I aspire to be drowned. — Emil M. Cioran

Rubicon Quotes By Duncan Simpson

The pages turned by themselves as the fan moved through its arc and then stopped to reveal the crossword puzzle page. The answer to four across - '7 letters. Caesar's crossing caused certain war?' - had been neatly completed in blue ink. 'Rubicon. — Duncan Simpson

Rubicon Quotes By Adrienne Woods

The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself — Adrienne Woods

Rubicon Quotes By Anthony Kennedy

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line. — Anthony Kennedy

Rubicon Quotes By John Connolly

Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red. — John Connolly

Rubicon Quotes By Steven Saylor

I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(aesar) did, and once the Rubicon is crossed, there can be no turning back (Meto, Caesar's scribe, to his father Gordianus the Finder) — Steven Saylor

Rubicon Quotes By Vaclav Klaus

This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero ... We are against a European superstate. — Vaclav Klaus

Rubicon Quotes By Rex Pickett

I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination. — Rex Pickett

Rubicon Quotes By Mildred Aldrich

I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge. — Mildred Aldrich

Rubicon Quotes By Max Muller

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. — Max Muller

Rubicon Quotes By Shahid Hussain Raja

Carefully measure the depth of water when crossing your Rubicon in life. The river was shallow when Julius Caesar crossed 2000 years ago. — Shahid Hussain Raja

Rubicon Quotes By Rebecca Solnit

Even earthquakes are the consequence of tensions built up over long spans of time, imperceptibly, incrementally. You don't notice the buildup, just the release. You see a sick person, an old person, a dying person, the sight sinks in, and somewhere down the road you change your life. In movies and novels, people change suddenly and permanently, which is convenient and dramatic but not much like life, where you gain distance on something, relapse, resolve, try again, and move along in stops, starts, and stutters. Change is mostly slow. In my life, there had been transformative events, and I'd had a few sudden illuminations and crises, crossed a rubicon or two, but mostly I'd had the incremental. — Rebecca Solnit

Rubicon Quotes By Chloe Thurlow

You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side. — Chloe Thurlow

Rubicon Quotes By Jon Krakauer

He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon. — Jon Krakauer

Rubicon Quotes By Bryant McGill

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life. — Bryant McGill

Rubicon Quotes By Ann Coulter

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago. — Ann Coulter

Rubicon Quotes By Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Rubicon Quotes By Michael C. Ruppert

When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read. — Michael C. Ruppert

Rubicon Quotes By C.W. Kesting

Technology has robbed us of everything that made being human fun."

--Aristotle Leary
from Rubicon Harvest — C.W. Kesting