Herodotus Quotes

Great things are won by great dangers.

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• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

  

  James Howell
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Wise

• I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Poetry
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movie

• In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Fact

• Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

  

  David Deida
  • May
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Scope

• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Pressure
  • Fatigue
  • Premise

• I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Law

• Since I've been here, they've made great decisions. And I'm sure they'll make the right decision here.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Great
  • Right
  • Decisions

• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Giving
  • Devil

• O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • May
  • Knowing

• Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

  

  Helen Keller
  • War
  • Exploitation

• Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Long
  • Real

• Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Missions

• The kids who played last year can say that was an adult problem, we won the title. We as adults dropped the ball.

  

  John Young
  • Kids
  • Played
  • Last

• I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• Great things are won by great dangers.

  

  Herodotus
  • Won
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