Menander Quotes
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Quotes to Explore
-
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
-
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
-
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
-
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
-
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
-
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
-
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
-
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
-
It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
-
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
-
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
-
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
-
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
-
Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
-
Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
-
Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
-
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
-
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
-
You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.
-
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
-
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
