Periclean Athens Quotes & Sayings

Later that night it took him most of a bottle of Chartreuse to work up the resolve to quit drinking. — Richard Price

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish) — George R R Martin

Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis, without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public affairs.' Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also come to suspect the idiocy of politicization - of the professional pol and power broker. The two idiocies make a perfect match, with the apathy of the first permitting the depredations of the second. — Christopher Hitchens

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. — Abel Aganbegyan

If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility. — Deyth Banger

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities. — Vera Farmiga

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28? — Cate Blanchett

I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know? — Crystal Reed

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself. — Zach Galifianakis

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco. — Will Rogers

I heard Mansour say to Richard, 'You transmitted to us the disease of your capitalist economy. What did you give us except for a handful of capitalist companies that drew off our blood - and still do?' Richard said to him, 'All this shows that you cannot manage to live without us. You used to complain about colonialism and when we left you created the legend of neo-colonialism. It seems that our presence, in an open or undercover form, is as indispensable to you as air and water.'

They were not angry: they said such things to each other as they laughed, a stone's throw from the Equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two of them. — Tayeb Salih