Barry S. Strauss Quotes

So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

Barry S. Strauss

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• Foam
• Orpheus

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• I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Sun
  • Red
  • Lucky

• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • World
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• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
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• The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Attention

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People

• The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.

  

  Aeschylus

• He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Perfect
  • Style

• You can't break what's broken already.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Broken

• The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • God
  • Bible

• Life is scary.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Life
  • Scary

• I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Why
  • Air
  • Fly

• Success has always been a great liar.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Success
  • Liar

• Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

  

  Newt Gingrich

• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Mother
  • Law

• The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Beach
  • Waves
  • Hip Hop

• Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Beginning
  • Waves

• The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Waves
  • Broke
  • Foam