Heraclitus Quotes

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

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• I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Work
  • Day
  • Cool

• I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Pride
  • Humility
  • Mask

• A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Character
  • Society
  • Science

• I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Never

• What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Imagine
  • Awful
  • Automobile

• So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Taken
  • Forever
  • Secrets

• Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Community
  • Atheism
  • Blasphemy

• I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Thing
  • My Wife

• Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

  

  John Gardner
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Genius
  • Distinction
  • Tread

• The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Separate
  • Contradiction
  • Beings

• I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

  

  Michael Wolf
  • Think
  • Excited
  • Would

• I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Real
  • I Can

• There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

  

  Celia Johnson
  • Better
  • Caught
  • Her

• What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Killed
  • Caught
  • Escaped