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

• We went against a lot of big-name schools. Our coaches were not shy about it. They went after the best players in their areas. We took some hits, but we won some.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Players
  • Coaches
  • Schools

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Dizzy

• And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Why

• Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

  

  George Washington
  • Fighting
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Great things are won by great dangers.

  

  Herodotus
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