Herodotus Quotes

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Herodotus

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• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Speed

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • People
  • She
  • Water

• I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Writing
  • Easy
  • Speed

• TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Speed
  • Territory
  • Tvs

• 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Running
  • Green

• Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Bigs
  • Speed
  • Slabs

• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Soul
  • Cold

• I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Lost
  • Speed
  • Forward

• I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Obsessed
  • Heat
  • Bedroom

• Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Power

• Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Causes
  • Heat
  • Okay

• The damage is extensive due to the extreme heat, dry weather, high winds and stressful moisture conditions.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Damage
  • Heat
  • Extreme

• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  

  William Shatner
  • Life
  • Miracle
  • Bigs

• The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

  

  Tony Verna
  • Feels
  • Innovation
  • Heat

• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Memory
  • Possible
  • Racial

• The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• Don't try to live too many days at a time.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Time
  • Live
  • Days

• Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

  

  Herodotus
  • Speed
  • Heat
  • Accomplishing