Homer Quotes
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
Homer
Quotes to Explore
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
Malorie Blackman
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
Donald Miller
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To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
Viola Davis
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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man is an island, but the water is deep
And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
When you look for independence and you get what you want
How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
But time and again, it dawns on me
It's the price we pay for liberty
I should have know, we all need a place to call home
Joey Tempest
Europe
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It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
John Ruskin
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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
Lao Tzu
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Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home.
Hannah Arendt
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
Seneca the Younger
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
Cesare Pavese
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All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
Homer
