Chilon of Sparta Quotes

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Qualities

• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Day
  • Become

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Donna

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Help

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

  

  William Golding
  • Book
  • Conditions
  • Statements

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Refuge
  • Philanthropy

• We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • War
  • Army
  • Hussein

• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Touchstone