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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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
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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
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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
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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
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I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
Brian Hugh Warner
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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
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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
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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
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But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.
Curtis Stone
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Prends l'éloquence et tords-lui son cou!Tu feras bien, en train d'énergie,Du rendre un peu la Rime assagie.Si l'on n’y veille, elle ira jusqu’où? Ô qui dira les torts de la Rime!Quel enfant sourd ou quel nègre fouNous a forgé ce bijou d'un souQui sonne creux et faux sous la lime?
Paul Verlaine
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The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.
Bettany Hughes