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

• Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Want

• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• To achieve great things, we must first dream.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Dream
  • Achieve
  • Great Things

• What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Shadows
  • Dangers

• More games are won during practice than during the game itself.

  

  George Raveling
  • Game
  • Practice
  • Won

• Great things are won by great dangers.

  

  Herodotus
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