Hoplite Games Quotes & Sayings

For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on. — Zoe Heller

I started my political career facing lynch mobs. — Bob Filner

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development. — Howard W. Hunter

When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance. — Billy Meier

I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. Not out of kindness or even curiosity, but because I'd happened to be dealt to him, like a playing card in a pack of identical cards. — Sylvia Plath

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism. — Tama J. Kieves

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part. — Arthur Rubinstein

But Mrs. Meany, see, the women went on, leaning forward, despite how her heart was broken, pulled herself together, anyway, to put on a good face for the rest of the family at home. And she went back, Sunday after Sunday, right up until the Sunday before she died. Mrs. Meany put her beautiful love - a mother's love - against the terrible scenes that brewed like sewage in that poor girl's troubled mind. She persevered, she baked her cakes, she hauled herself (the goiter swinging) on and off the ferry, and she sat, brokenhearted, holding her daughter's hand, even as Lucy shouted her terrible words, proving to anyone with eyes to see that a mother's love was a beautiful, light, relentless thing that the devil could not diminish. — Alice McDermott

It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way. — Deyth Banger

Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning. — Shawn T. Smith

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible. — Daniel Tammet

The will of man is his happiness. — Friedrich Schiller

Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time — Sunday Adelaja

90 percent of the corn and cotton and 93 percent of the soy-beans planted in the U.S. last year were genetically modified. — Anonymous