But I’d tried! I really had. I was SHOCKED! Tears came to my eyes and I think Rochin and Hillam saw me, but I didn’t care. This was it. My life was over. I was done, finished. I had no future.
In the Pontic triumph one of the decorated wagons, instead of a stage-set representing scenes from the war, like the rest, carried a simple three-word inscription: I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED! This referred not to the events of the war [against Pontus], like the other inscriptions, but to the speed with which it had been won.
I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
When I saw him I thought, "my God, if these guys ever came to power and declared a caliphate, it would be Hell on Earth."
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
Well I rode a while, for a mile or so
Down the road to the 18th Avenue
And the people I saw were the people I know
And they all came down to take a view
And then there came peace into their music, and the heavens and the earth sang together.
All this I saw in my dream, and all this I heard.
When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better)