Bettany Hughes Quotes

The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

Bettany Hughes

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• There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Hope

• I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • War
  • Fear
  • Dying

• Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Mother, mother There's too many of you crying. Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Brother

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • She

• Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

  

  Ella R. Bloor
  • Hope
  • Control

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• A country that cannot support entrepreneurship has no hope.

  

  Lu Guanqiu
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Support

• During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Fate

• Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Important
  • Art
  • May

• One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Writing
  • Hope

• The days I see a Make-A-Wish kid are the best days of the week. It's a real privilege. I give them exactly what they give me - hope.

  

  John Cena
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Wish

• What has happened at Indiana, every game becomes a final exam. You are judged by your most recent performance, and that makes it tough for everybody in the program. It's tough enough to try to win without having that kind of pressure.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Exam

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • City
  • Forever
  • Wall

• It is problematic to imagine yourself in the shoes of a criminal and conclude, 'Well, I wouldn’t have done that'-because if you weren’t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you don’t fit in his shoes. Even if you would like to imagine what it’s like to be him, you won’t be very good at it.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Shoes

• The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Hope
  • Dying
  • Athens