Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

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• I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Guilty
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • See
  • Humble

• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Dumb
  • Even

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Funny
  • They Say

• A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • True
  • Always
  • Never

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Scrappy

• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  

  Origen
  • May
  • House
  • Strong

• Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Years

• Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Human
  • Acting

• But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Hate
  • Powerful

• Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Events
  • Painter
  • Interpretation

• I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on.

  

  Dan Jansen
  • Faster
  • Importantly
  • Efficiently

• I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Done
  • Persons
  • Fats

• A fearful man is always hearing things.

  

  Sophocles
  • Things
  • Hearing
  • Fearful Man

• The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Kind
  • Mystery
  • Appearance

• Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

  

  Phaedrus
  • Things
  • Appearance
  • Seem