King Leonidas Sparta Quotes & Sayings

Reilly: The human condition ... they may remember the vision they have had, but they cease to regret it, maintain themselves by the common routine, learn to avoid excessive expectation, Become tolerant of themselves and others, Giving and taking, in the usual actions what there is to give and take. They do not repine; Are contented with the morning that separates and with the evening that brings together for casual talk before the fire. Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.
Celia: Is that the best life?
Reilly: It is a good life. Though you will not know how good until you come to the end. But you will want nothing else, and the other life will be only like a book you have read once, and lost. In a world of lunacy, violence, stupidity, greed ... it is a good life. — T. S. Eliot

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. — John Malkovich

The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings — G.K. Chesterton

We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life. — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too. — David Brooks

We want to bring the presence of God to the people, but forget in the process that only God Himself is able to do that. — Sunday Adelaja

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice. — Desmond Howard