"May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of BÃªl and NÃ¢bu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes."

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Source : Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

Cyrus the Great

#Blessed Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.”

Source : Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).
“I want to bring more gymnastics on television.”
“Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.”
“I had a dream this girl was cheating on me! I woke up and went back to sleep to find him, he kicked my ***** in my dream!”
“I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.”
“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”
“God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.”
“You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”

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