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

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• 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

• I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Home
  • Running
  • Heat

• 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

• No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Film
  • Speed
  • Print

• 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

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• I didn't get too many people out in that first one here last year.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Last Year

• Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Death
  • Americans
  • Corruption

• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  

  William P. Young
  • Trying
  • Understanding
  • Religious

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

  

  Herodotus
  • Speed
  • Heat
  • Accomplishing