J. B. Bury Quotes

It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.

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• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Success
  • Summer
  • Integrity

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • People
  • Life
  • Single

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
  • Colour

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Insecurity
  • Vanity
  • Apply

• The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Good
  • Society
  • Talent

• I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Proud

• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Culture
  • Freedom
  • Question

• It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.

  

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