Battus Polydamas Quotes & Sayings

I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity. — Mo Abudu

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ... — David B. Coe

[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself. — Naomi Jackson

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. — Daniel Day-Lewis

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. — Edgar Winter

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.' — Donald Trump

How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration? — William F. Buckley Jr.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization. — Alexis De Tocqueville

You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars? Ai Ling asked. — Cindy Pon

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices. — Sallust

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles. — Bell Hooks

But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out. — The Beatles

Mistakes are what make life worth
living dangerously. If it weren't for our mistakes then our victories
wouldn't taste nearly as sweet. — Justin Qwits