Diagoras Greek Quotes & Sayings

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. — John Bates Clark

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Small back yard until the sun went down and the early mosquitoes came out to play. I was — Karina Halle

He IS just a normal boy. — Molly Looby

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically. — Tom Jenkinson

People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance. — Jacques Lusseyran

A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul. — Nikita Gill

A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others. — Albert Camus

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. — Ambrose Bierce

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else. — Heidi Baker

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan

But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they've gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving. — Robert Crais

If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist — Yukio Mishima

Deuteronomy had listed a number of obligatory laws, which had included the Ten Commandments. During and immediately after the exile, this had been elaborated into a complex legislation consisting of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) in the Pentateuch. These minute directives seem off-putting to an outsider and have been presented in a very negative light by New Testament polemic. Jews did not find them a crushing burden, as Christians tend to imagine, but found that they were a symbolic way of living in the presence of God. In — Karen Armstrong