Herodotus Quotes

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

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• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• Men tend to be selfish.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Men
  • Selfish
  • Tend

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • See
  • Wives

• Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Men
  • Health

• I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Job
  • Director

• When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Men
  • Numbers

• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • Women
  • Selfishness

• The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• For showing loyalty in the midst of prosperity calls for no particular admiration, but always, if men show themselves steadfast when friends have fallen upon misfortunes, this is remembered for all times.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Loyalty

• Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Money

• Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Men
  • Father
  • Alone

• The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Father

• I think what Trump will be judged on by the folks that voted for him... is whether things start to get a little bit better over the next few years. And ultimately, that doesn't depend on whether Jeff Sessions is the attorney general.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Better
  • Trump

• I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.

  

  Peter Greenaway

• When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Habit
  • Maturity
  • Clarity

• Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

  

  Herodotus
  • Men
  • Nothing
  • Untried