Diodorus Cyrinus Quotes & Sayings

like the ancient Greek concept arete, I thought, virtue required moral, emotional, mental, and physical excellence. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and — Paul Kalanithi

Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way. — Kevin Powers

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. — Samuel Johnson

If I had known what trouble you were bearing;
What griefs were in the silence of your face;
I would have been more gentle, and more caring,
And tried to give you gladness for a space.
I would have brought more warmth into the place,
If I had known.
If I had known what thoughts despairing drew you;
(Why do we never try to understand?)
I would have lent a little friendship to you,
And slipped my hand within your hand,
And made your stay more pleasant in the land,
If I had known. — Mary Carolyn Davies

The evil you do to others you may expect in return. — Publilius Syrus

Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg — Otto F. Kernberg

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. — Hassan Blasim

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration. — Willem Dafoe

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master. — John Dryden

Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your own home with your husband. — Bram Stoker

Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished? — Crystal Woods

There is also something exciting about the risk. Somewhere in me is a sadist that likes pain, I guess. — Tyler Hilton

I guess that's the thing about betrayal; it holds no prejudice and preys on those who neither see it coming nor deserve it. — Anna Todd

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. — James N. Frey