Homer Quotes
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.
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If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
