came quotes

Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered.

- Irving Caesar
   BC  Said to have been written on a titulus (placard) carried along in Caesar's triumph after a campaign in Pontus (Asia Minor) during the civil war (46      ). Quoted in Suetonius Lives of the Twelve Caesars,'Divus Iulius', section 37.  Another source reports that Caesar used this expression in a letter to the Senate after the same campaign (cf Plutarch, Caesar 50, 3^4).

I came, I saw,God conquered. See also Caesar184:25, John III Sobieski 438:59.

-CharlesV
  Attributed remark after the Battle of Muhlberg, 23  Apr.

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

- Edward Fitzgerald
 The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza 74.

I go to my studio every day, because one day I may go and the angel will be there.What if I don't go and the angel came?

- Philip Guston
  Quoted by Gail Godwin in the Washington Post,7 Mar.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

-Jack Horner
  On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26  Apr.

I came, I saw,God conquered. See Caesar184:25, CharlesV 207:35.

-John III Sobieski of Poland
  Message sent to the Pope after the defeat of the Turks at the Battle of  Vienna,12 Sep.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

- Albert Schweitzer
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).