Bion of Borysthenes Quotes

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

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• Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Family

• A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Way
  • Failure
  • Teaches

• I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

  

  Tom Hanks
  • New York Yankees

• He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq." She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. "Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm?" "Uh-huh." Ben nodded. "That's what he said." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • War
  • Son
  • Feelings

• Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Machine
  • Application
  • Browser

• I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.

  

  Mena Grabowski Trott
  • Decided
  • Experts
  • Bloggers

• People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • People
  • Taste
  • Okay

• The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Top
  • Out
  • Fights

• Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Judgment
  • Comparison
  • Limitation

• Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Teaches
  • Theology

• There's not a lot of good movies being made.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Made
  • Good Movie

• Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Fate
  • Evils

• Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Glory
  • Conspiracy
  • Flashes

• It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

  

  Natalie MacLean
  • Experience
  • Wine
  • Writer

• Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • Evils
  • Metropolis
  • Love Of Money