Anna Komnene Quotes

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Character

• You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• My life began with Ronnie.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Began

• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Nature
  • Community
  • Ukrainian

• It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • History

• I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.

  

  David Frankel
  • Work
  • Movie

• You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

  

  Diplo

• For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • She
  • Free

• I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Decision

• Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Sweet

• By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Mistake
  • Errors

• When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

  

  George McGovern
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• All as before: against the dining-room windows Beats the scattered windswept snow, And I have not changed either, But a man came to me. I asked: 'What do you want?' He replied: 'To be with you in Hell.' I laughed: 'Oh, you'll foredoom Us both to disaster.'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Snow

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

  

  Anna Komnene
  • War
  • Arms
  • Assembled