Herodotus Quotes

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Character
  • Luck

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Men
  • You

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Done
  • Hate

• I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

  

  Robin Zander Cheap Trick
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Prove
  • Burden
  • Exception

• He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

  

  Jack London
  • Wisdom

• I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Wisdom

• All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

  

  George Orwell
  • Force
  • Exposed
  • Tyrannies

• Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

  

  Herodotus
  • Wisdom
  • Force
  • Little