Bettany Hughes Quotes

For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

Bettany Hughes

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• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Want

• A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Gay

• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Point
  • Addiction
  • Terminal

• When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Know
  • Play
  • First

• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Human
  • Creativity
  • Heritage

• You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

  

  Xenophon
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Discipline

• I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Like
  • Always

• In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Fear

• My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Wife

• Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• The world is me and I am the world.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • War
  • Song

• I declare that henceforth capital and labor shall have equal rights and duties as brothers in the fascist family.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Family

• The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

  

  James Dickey
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Deep

• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • School
  • History
  • High

• When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • War
  • Ideals
  • Buildings