"High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief."

--

Euripides

#Sweet Quotes #Grief Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”
“Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.”
“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”
“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
“I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
“See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see”
“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

Source : "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

You may also like:

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Aristophanes
Playwright
Aristotle
Philosopher
Herodotus
Historian
Homer
Author
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Socrates
Philosopher
Sophocles
Playwright
Thucydides
Historian