Chilon of Sparta Quotes
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon of Sparta
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Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!
Mads Mikkelsen
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
Edgar Ramirez
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.
Beverly Johnson
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A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
Buck Owens
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I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.
Rachel Caine
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They don't know you're secretly a badass?
Rachel Caine
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
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The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
Marlon James
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
Gertrude Atherton
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When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.
Geoffrey Elton
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Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.
Merce Cunningham
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What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon of Sparta
