Chilon of Sparta Quotes
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Quotes to Explore
-
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
-
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
-
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
-
One can not impede scientific progress.
-
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
-
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
-
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
-
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
-
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
-
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
-
It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
-
I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
-
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
-
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
-
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
-
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
-
The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
-
I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.
-
The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
-
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
