Homer Quotes
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges -
They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
Kate Clinton -
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
Nate Silver
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
Earl Weaver -
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
Walter Cronkite -
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf -
My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.
Fionn Whitehead -
In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
G. Willow Wilson -
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln -
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton -
What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal
T. S. Eliot
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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair -
Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.
Esther Hicks -
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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