Alexander the Great Quotes

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • Country
  • Remember

• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Change
  • Charge

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • I Believe

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Best

• For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Help
  • Lawyer

• The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Fun
  • Bitter

• I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

  

  Fred Allen
  • People
  • Done

• I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Great

• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  

  Alexander the Great
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