Spartan Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery. — David Hume

Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Now here was Saeed Saeed, and Biju's admiration for the man confounded him. Fate worked this way. Biju was overcome by the desire to be his friend, because Saeed Saeed wasn't drowning, he was bobbing in the tides. — Kiran Desai

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world. — Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am. — Arthur Chu

The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.' — Geoffrey Rush

I'm too impatient to use a tripod. — Ralph Gibson

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period. — Christopher McQuarrie

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls. — James Rosenquist

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money. — Jaclyn Smith

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up. — Ben Parr

When she smiled at me, just for a moment she looked a little like Annabeth. Then like this television actress I used to have a crush on in fifth grade. Then ... well, you get the idea. — Rick Riordan

The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood. — Mary Renault

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at. — Thomas Huxley