Herodotus Quotes

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

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• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

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• When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

  

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• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

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• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

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• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

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• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

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• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

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• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

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• Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

  

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• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

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• I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

  

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• My mom is a sculptress.

  

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• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

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• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
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• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  

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• I've been married a couple of times and survived!

  

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• The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

  

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• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

  

  Ray Bradbury
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• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
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• He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

  

  Herodotus
  • Action
  • Fears
  • Best Man