Pericles Quotes

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Hand
  • Poverty
  • Look

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eye

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • You
  • Violence
  • Better

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Will
  • Someone

• 'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.

  

  Kelly Carlson
  • World
  • Real

• Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Time
  • Family
  • Golf

• I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • House

• The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Alliances
  • Irreplaceable

• This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • People
  • Men
  • Age

• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  

  Pericles
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