Homer Quotes

T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • You
  • Looking
  • Used

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Human
  • Human Life

• Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Culture
  • Day

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Love
  • Stuff
  • Fan

• Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Fall

• In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.

  

  Karl Jaspers

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• I like guys who drive trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Like
  • Guys
  • Drive

• I realized that night the import and the terrible difficulty in the task ahead of me-in keeping this child safe from the sharp edges of a strange and indifferent universe.I think that is was on this alien and storm-tossed night that I first understood what it might be like to be a parent.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Night
  • Universe
  • Storm

• You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Experience

• T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

  

  Homer
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