Herodotus Quotes
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
Men tend to be selfish.
Caprice Bourret -
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri -
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 -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
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
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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 -
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid -
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 -
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 -
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael -
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 -
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 -
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke -
All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow -
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)Will back their own opinions by a wager.
Lord Byron
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You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write books. You don't have anything to do with civilization. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books - people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do?
Colin Wilson -
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
David Niven -
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
Anthony Daniels -
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball -
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
Karl Marx -
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Herodotus