Nohemi Hernandez Quotes & Sayings

The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private individuals is the ruin of timocracy; they invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or their wives care about the law? Yes, indeed. And then one, seeing another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. Likely enough. And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls. True. And in proportion as riches and rich men are honoured in the State, virtue and the virtuous are dishonoured. Clearly. And what is honoured is cultivated, and that which has no honour is neglected. That — Plato

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that. — Billy Graham

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die. — Erasmus Darwin

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place. — Albert King

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee. — Kristen Johnston

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. — William Butler Yeats

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs. — Anne M. Mulcahy

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer
like Macbeth's witches
mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book
telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban. — A.S. Byatt

If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled. — Steven Magee

She was hot, he was a man; not being attracted would have been impossible. That gleaming dark hair tempted a man to find out what it would look like released from its tight bun. She had toned, endless legs. Her li8ps were distracting, especially that teasing mole in the corner. She could give a dead monk a boner. — Dana Marton

Our submission defines our authority — Bradley Cooper

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. — Janna Levin