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

• I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • People
  • Been
  • Tennessee

• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Missions

• Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Lord

• Great things are won by great dangers.

  

  Herodotus
  • Won
  • Dangers
  • Great Things