Aesop Quotes

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Idea
  • Creatures
  • Poems

• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Baseball
  • Lovely
  • Enjoyed

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Fighter
  • Competitor

• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Know
  • Open

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Book
  • Relationship

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Sun

• It's kinda all about image.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Image
  • About
  • Kinda

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

  

  Banks
  • Time
  • Love
  • Mom

• Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Poetry

• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Always
  • Something
  • Authority

• Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Judge

• “It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.”

  

  P.W. Catanese
  • Years
  • Growing Up
  • Ages

• When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Angry

• Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Work
  • Humanity

• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

  

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