Homer Quotes
Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide.
Homer
Quotes to Explore
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
Victoria Moran
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
Jack Schwartz
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The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
Walter Map
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
Jack Straw
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Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
Lord Dunsany
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[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.
Fanny Kemble
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom Stoppard
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
Isaac Newton
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In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
Willem de Kooning
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I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
Santiago Leyva
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Sarah Addison Allen
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.
Ayobami Adebayo
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There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.
William Tyndale
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There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide.
Homer
