Herodotus Quotes

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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• I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Speak

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Nature

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • History
  • Achievement
  • Mathematics

• He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Science
  • Religion

• Music is the 5th gospel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Gospel
  • Music Is

• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dark
  • Study
  • Thoughts

• All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Children
  • Future
  • Learned

• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Life
  • Marathon
  • Pace

• As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Currency

• She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Reason
  • Fire
  • Dress

• It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.

  

  Paul Dano
  • Best
  • Acting
  • Explicit

• The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • History
  • Military
  • Israel

• I really enjoy working on adaptations.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Enjoy
  • Adaptation

• A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

  

  Ambeth R. Ocampo
  • Historian
  • Sources
  • Limited

• Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Talk
  • Penis
  • Was Not

• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

  

  Herodotus
  • Historian
  • Defects
  • Right Time