Pericles Quotes

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

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• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Time
  • Love
  • For Her

• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Grace

• Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Down

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Moving
  • Acting
  • Expect

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Reality

• While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Different

• I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

  

  Ben Barnes

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

  

  Bill McCartney
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Greatness

• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • World
  • Trying
  • Art

• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  

  Pericles
  • Vision