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Quotes About Caesar

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
~ James Sanborn
Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally.
~ Marcus J. Borg
We face a similar choice each Christmas, and so each Advent is a time of repentance for the past and change for the future. Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Gaul was brought to shame by Caesar; By King Nicomedes, he. Here comes Caesar, wreathed in triumph For his Gallic victory! Nicomedes wears no laurels, Though the greatest of the three.
~ Margaret George
Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils.
~ Margaret George
Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long usage.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
~ Janet Street-Porter
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring
~ Claude C. Hopkins
Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar's, an empire that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
~ Timothy Leary
I don't want to be Caesar Plodding round Britain, [...] Freezing my nuts off in a Scythian midden Hadrian's matching riposte conveyed wit and affability and a side of his personality that he was eager to project: I don't want to be a Florus, Crawling round pubs, Skulking in pie-shops Bitten by bugs.
~ Elizabeth Speller
By the time of the Great Schism, Italy had descended back into gangster politics, as in the days of Caesar and Pompey.
~ Arthur Herman
Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs.
~ Arthur Machen
I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.
~ Roger Deakins
BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The Romans have set fire to the Library of Alexandria) THEODOTUS: —What is burning there is the memory of mankind. CAESAR: —A shameful memory. Let it burn. THEODOTUS (wildly): —Will you destroy the past? CAESAR: —Ay, and build the future with its ruins.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I like to work out. I like a routine. I'm kind of simple. I eat almost the same thing every day. I like Caesar salad.
~ Britney Spears
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
~ Frederic Farrar
I am the son of Julius Caesar, and I am consul of Rome. You will not call me boy again.
~ John Williams
Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.
~ Basil Henry Liddell Hart
It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the victor-and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential adherents and recruits for Caesar. Despite the substitution of manoeuvre for direct assaults upon his enemy the campaign had cost him only six weeks of his time.
~ Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
~ Nate Silver