Edith Hamilton Quotes
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
Adam McKay
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
S. Jay Olshansky
I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
Ted Danson
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
Nancy Lopez
All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.
Baruch Spinoza
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!Take all! Despite you there is yet one thingI hold against you all, and when, tonight,I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,I bear away despite you … My panache.
Edmond Rostand
He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin
