#Character Quotes #Nobility Quotes #Oath Quotes
“No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.”
Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 188), 1985.
“While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.”
“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”
“It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.”
“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”
“Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.”
Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Those who write clearly have readers.”
Critias Author
Croesus
Herodotus Historian
Lycurgus of Sparta
Pericles Greek Statesman
Pittacus of Mytilene
Plutarch Biographer
Thales Philosopher
Themistocles Athenian Politician
