Heraclius Quotes & Sayings

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. — Mark Twain

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize. — Lindsey Vonn

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised — William Wordsworth

On the contrary. When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match. — Tracy Chevalier

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate. — Willard Van Orman Quine

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on. — Vinton Cerf

Stripped of the diadem and purple, clothed in a vile habit, and loaded with chains, he was transported in a small boat to the Imperial galley of Heraclius, who reproached him with the crimes of his abominable reign. "Wilt thou govern better?" were the last words of the despair of Phocas. — Edward Gibbon

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration. — James Balog

Thievery was the most authentic form of flattery. What could be more satisfying than knowing the things you possessed were intriguing, captivating, or valuable enough to provoke another man to risk everything to obtain them? This was Kelsier's purpose in life, to remind people of the value of the things they loved. By taking them away. — Brandon Sanderson