Agis Quotes & Sayings

She turned her head, and the skin of her cheek caught the moonlight, smooth as satin. Tough and beautiful. He grimaced.

Tu agis sans passion et sans haine.
You act without passion and without hatred.

He'd recited the line every day of his nineteen years in the Legion, but it'd never resonated as strongly as it did now. — Brynn Kelly

A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch - — Rebecca Solnit

Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective — Sweety Shinde

She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart. — Donna Lynn Hope

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer. — Francis Of Assisi

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture. — LaToya London

It is a pity that the great dramatist did not select from Plutarch's works some hero who took the side of the people, some Agis or Cleomenes, or, better yet, one of the Gracchi. What a tragedy he might have based on the life of Tiberius, the friend of the people and the martyr in their cause! But the spirit which guided Schiller in the choice of William Tell for a hero was a stranger to Shakespeare's heart, and its promptings would have met with no response there. — William Shakespeare

A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain.
So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world.
Hey, Mom. We're home. — Suzanne Collins

Original sin - that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil - will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment. — Theodore Dalrymple

King Agis said, The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are. — Plutarch

Since nobody reacts to car alarms anymore, stop putting alarms in cars. Face it. At this point, car alarms are like Glenn Beck: annoying, pointless, and everyone's finally learned to ignore them. When I hear one, my first thought is: Please, God, I hope someone is stealing that car so they'll drive it away from my window. — Bill Maher

It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there. — Danny McBride

Love enters a man through his eyes, a woman through her ears. — A.G. Howard

Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self. — Richard Tuttle

The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are. — Agis II

Try not to be so happy, mumler Agis, the spice situation in Denmark is a disaster. — Stine Pilgaard