Aristophanes Quotes

Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

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• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Hate
  • Party
  • Slavery

• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • History
  • Science

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Best
  • Color

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• I just go out and play golf.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Golf

• I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Play
  • Always
  • Lady

• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

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