"The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying."

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Source : Theocritus, Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1952). “Theocritus”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

Theocritus

#Greek Quotes #Trying Quotes #Done Quotes

“I want to become more and more like Jesus my Lord, my Saviour. And the way we do that is through discipleship. So I get myself discipled by great men like Doctor Phil Pringle, constantly speaking into my life.”
“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.”
“It never occurred to me to be an actor.”

Source : "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.
“Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me”
“On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.”
“What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafÃ©s and in the country.”
“Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.”
“Glitter is my makeup of choice.”

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