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Quotes About Caesar

So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
~ Suzanne Collins
Bueno..., Peeta..., bienvenido de nuevo. —Imagino que no pensabas volver a entrevistarme, Caesar —responde Peeta, sonriendo un poco.
~ Suzanne Collins
I knew that most of what is frightening and much of what is evil happens by the light of day. No need for darkness. Caesar, after all, had been murdered in the presence of a hundred people and more - some time between high noon and five o'clock. Right in these waters off the coast of Maine the most terrifying sharks are the ones we see in the radiance of fear. The real ones - darkened below us - do no harm until they rise towards the light. If only, I began to wish, it would get dark.
~ Timothy Findley
why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry.
~ Tobias Wolff
Only a very bold country would mix vodka and clams. The cocktail, also known as the Bloody Caesar, was invented in 1969 by Canadian hero Walter Chell, who crushed fresh clams into tomato juice and added plenty of vodka. Americans can now take the easy route by buying Clamato off the shelf.
~ Kerry Colburn
This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart.
~ William Shakespeare
The ides of March are come.
~ William Shakespeare
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
~ Plutarch
There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.
~ Bible
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
~ William Shakespeare
According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.
~ Ayman Odeh
Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
~ Giulio Andreotti
His was one of those petty and mean natures, towards which it is dangerous to practice magnanimity; to his paltry spirit it appeared certainly a dictate of prudence to supplant at the first opportunity his reluctantly acknowledged rival, and his mean soul thirsted after a possibility of retaliating on Caesar for the humiliation which he had suffered through Caesar's indulgence.
~ Theodor Mommsen
But the greatest of these marks of respect was the involuntary homage which Caesar rendered to him, when he made an exception to the contemptuous clemency with which he was wont to treat his opponents, Pompeians as well as republicans, in the case of Cato alone, and pursued him even beyond the grave with that energetic hatred which practical statesmen are wont to feel towards antagonists opposing them from a region of ideas which they regard as equally dangerous and impracticable.
~ Theodor Mommsen
accomplice," Ridgeway said. "Caesar. Did it make
~ Colson Whitehead
The idea was like a hunk of wood, Caesar thought, requiring human craft and ingenuity to reveal the new shape within.
~ Colson Whitehead
Nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Caesar, imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris,--- Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo.
~ Virgil
Dates are given in the Julian calendar, in effect since the time of Julius Caesar.
~ Laurence Bergreen
For many in America and around the world, the American flag has smothered the glory of the cross, and the ugliness of our American version of Caesar has squelched the radiant love of Christ.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The type of hero dear to crowds will always have the semblance of a Caesar. His insignia attracts them, his authority overawes them, and his sword instils them with fear.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
~ James Joyce
But if Virtue was to be rewarded with Wealth it would not be Virtue. If Virtue was to be rewarded with Fame, it would not be Virtue of the sublimest Kind. Who would not rather be Fabricius than Caesar? Who would not rather be Aristides, than even William the 3rd? Who?
~ John Adams, 1778
Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.