Ilyena Mironov Quotes & Sayings

Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and ingratiated himself with the multitude, stirred up and exasperated the most eminent men of the city, who had long borne a secret grudge to Theseus, conceiving that he had robbed them of their several little kingdoms and lordships, and, having pent them all up in one city, was using them as his subjects and slaves. He put also the meaner people into commotion, telling them, that, deluded with a mere dream of liberty, though indeed they were deprived both of that and of their proper homes and religious usages, instead of many good and gracious kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be lorded over by a new-comer and a stranger. — Plutarch

There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion. — Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. — John Powell

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that. — Bruce Davison

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts. — Khaled Talib

Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again. — Leo Tolstoy

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over. — David Eddings

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. — Walter Savage Landor

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not. — Hasan M. Elahi

45When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer'[63]; but you have made it 'a den of robbers. — Anonymous

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. — Barack Obama

90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort — Nitin Yaduvanshi