#Children Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Age Quotes
“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”
“You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.”
Source : Joni Rodgers (1999). “Sugar Land: A Novel”, Spinsters Ink Books
“Silence is a great source of strength.”
Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.5, Green Dragon Books
“too great pity is the greatest cruelty.”
“Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”
“I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.”
“As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature’s leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades—nature’s framework of their picture—so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.”
Source : "Motives of Life".
Aeschylus Dramatist
Aristotle Philosopher
Euripides Writer
Plato Philosopher
Plautus Playwright
Socrates Philosopher
Sophocles Playwright
Thucydides Historian
Menander Dramatist
