Euripides Quotes

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

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• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Shape
  • Structure

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Ancient

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Work
  • Me
  • Shape

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Ancient
  • Finding
  • Died

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Shape

• Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Home
  • Times
  • Ancient

• I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Children
  • Done
  • War

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Today
  • Wine
  • Ancient

• It isn't hard to stay in shape.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Shape
  • Stay

• I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • My Life

• Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Ancient
  • Love You

• Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Ancient

• You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Soul
  • Shape
  • Developing

• My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Uncle

• As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.

  

  Benson Henderson
  • Fighter

• The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

  

  William Booth
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Impossible

• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  

  Euripides
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