Herodotus And Thucydides Quotes & Sayings

If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man. — Chris Wade

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body. — Donald Trump

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ... — Storm Jameson

When Compasia took pity on me, she reached down into the Underworld, touched the shoulder of Moritas, and asked her forgiveness. Then Compasia took my sister in her arms and placed her in the sky, where she, too, turned to stardust.
Magiano looks at me, his eyes wide. It seems as if he already, somehow, understands.
"My goddess made me a promise," I whisper.
Only now do I realize that I have never seen him cry before.
In the stories, Compasia and her human lover would descend each night from the stars to walk the mortal world, before vanishing with the dawn. So, together, we stare at the sky, waiting. — Marie Lu

Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks. — Alex Pacheco

Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that. — Nicholas Stoller

Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country. — Bill Maher

It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going. — Jason Fried

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world — Louis De Bernieres

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. — Thomas Haden Church

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield

Often the thing that frightens us the most is the one that should be done first. — Mark Zenner

Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. — Katie Gill

I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade. — Dallas Roberts

Why is this place named Burnt Boot?" Martin asked.
"Back in the days of the cattle drives old Hiram Cleary got tired of lookin' at the back end of cattle all day. He sat down right out there and pulled off his boot, threw it in the fire so he couldn't go no further, and built a store to sell stuff to the people comin' up the trail. He was an ancestor to my husband," Gladys answered. — Carolyn Brown