Barry S. Strauss Quotes

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

Barry S. Strauss

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• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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  • Mistakes

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Truth
  • Faith

• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Champion
  • Wait

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Me
  • Holocaust
  • Jews

• I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Hope
  • Respect
  • Peace

• The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• 'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • May
  • Truth
  • Past

• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fault

• My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Growing Up
  • Players
  • Footballer

• When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

  

  Euripides
  • Wise
  • Arguments
  • Chooses

• A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

  

  Richard Reeves
  • History
  • Politics
  • Cleaned

• The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Imagination
  • Poet
  • Painter