Alexander the Great Quotes

Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

Alexander the Great

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Way
  • Fire
  • Jesus Christ

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Camera

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• Time, the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• I love Al Pacino.

  

  Rain
  • Love
  • I Love
  • al

• An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Giving

• Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Words
  • Fear

• There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Value

• I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Different
  • Made

• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Want

• The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

  

  Alexander the Great