Bion of Borysthenes Quotes
Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
Quotes to Explore
-
We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
-
Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
-
It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
-
Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.
-
I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.
-
Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.
-
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
-
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
-
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
-
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
-
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
-
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
-
With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
-
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
-
I don't expect a settlement, and I don't expect a collapse of discussions.
-
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
-
I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.
-
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.
-
Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.
-
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
-
Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
