Homer Quotes

But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

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• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
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• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
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  • Own

• Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Listening

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
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• The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  

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• Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  

  Artur Davis
  • Compassion

• There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

  

  Per Petterson
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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  

  Buddha
  • Free
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• Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Winning

• The stories that are most unfamiliar, the ones that seem to come out of the blue about people that aren't well known, usually come from producers that have really done a lot of homework and looked around. Other stories come from the correspondents.

  

  Frank Deford
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• A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

  

  Douglas Dunn

• Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

  

  Craig Brown
  • May
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• Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

  

  Shari Arison
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• God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
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• Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Hurt
  • Cold

• But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  

  Homer
  • Enemy
  • Mankind
  • Fallen