Halicarnassus Quotes & Sayings

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Short prayer pierceth heaven. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces. — Herbert Ratner

At Halicarnassus , the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria . — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. — Jack Steinberger

The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody. — William Friedkin

That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

God's creativity in us comes with our consistency in Him. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by. — Matthew Rhys