Herodotus Sparta Quotes & Sayings

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be. — William J. Bernstein

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky. — Simone Weil

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. — Mike Rounds

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all. — Viggo Mortensen

You people keep spoiling my plans. First Wizard Suliman would not come near the Waste, so that I had to threaten Princess Valeria in order to make the King order him out here. Then, when he came, he grew trees. — Diana Wynne Jones

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect. — Majora Carter

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. — Charles Darwin

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

She does it simply because it looks beautiful. — Nicola Yoon

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. — George MacDonald

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. — Scott Brooks

And in this matter, Gold, he'd said, rolling his eyes towards Frank, we have had an early advantage. — Joan London

Mr. Tall, blond and delicious?" She's a huge fan of Gabriel's. Maybe it's because he kissed her hand, or because he showed her nothing but courtesy during that weekend in the castle. Or maybe, just maybe, it's because she knows I'm in love with him. — Magda Alexander