Nikephoros of Chios (Nicephoros) Quotes

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

Nikephoros of Chios

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Action

• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Page

• I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Better
  • Start
  • Games

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • True
  • Leadership

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Small

• People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Business
  • History

• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• 'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Work
  • Demon

• Put not your trust in princes.

  

  Prince
  • Trust

• I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'

  

  Larry Niven

• The positivity of the Obamas as a family is undeniable.

  

  James Corden
  • Family

• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Pain
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Moral

• Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

  

  Nikephoros of Chios
  • God
  • Men
  • Love