Herodotus Quotes
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
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Life is too short to be a boring company.
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... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually managed to come back off the strike with an episode that claimed that the CW wasn't able to get an episode of Supernatural done fast enough. So the prelude to 'Ghostfacers!' is the Ghostfacers going, 'Yeah, those fat-cat writers, we've got a show that's better than that bullshit anyway.' I mean, that's pretty cool in the world of metanarrative, which is, I have to admit, one of my abiding passions.
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Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.
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How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
