Callimachus Quotes

Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Fact

• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Heart
  • Me

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Mean

• If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • You
  • Presence

• Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fishing

• When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

  

  Man Ray
  • Art
  • Joker

• Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death

• Be thou erect, or be made erect.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • People
  • Time
  • Service

• Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Failure

• As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.

  

  James Bobin
  • Important
  • Family
  • Challenge

• The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

  

  Wayne Jacobsen
  • Trying
  • Christian
  • Score

• The system, though it may not be perfect in every part, is, upon the whole, a good one; is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit; and is such an one as promises every species of security which a reasonable people can desire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

  

  George MacDonald
  • God

• Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

  

  Callimachus
  • God
  • Fall
  • Forever