Cleopatra on leave
Cleopatra10 quotes“Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.”
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Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
CleopatraCleopatra All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CleopatraCleopatra Is he a good man?” “Define ‘good’.
CleopatraCleopatra I will not be triumphed over.
CleopatraCleopatra In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraCleopatra My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
CleopatraCleopatra Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
CleopatraCleopatra Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
CleopatraCleopatra And make death proud to take us.
CleopatraCleopatra
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TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on leave
Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.
Agathe SnowAgathe Snow The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
Aga Khan IVAga Khan IV We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.
Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
Paul SimonPaul Simon Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul SimonPaul Simon There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Paul SimonPaul Simon
