Athenians And Spartans Quotes

#1. We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

Alan Greenspan

#3. Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Fuyumi Soryo

#4. His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

Simon Kuper

#5. One of the tutors let it slip when we were talking about the difference between revelation, inspiration, creativity and madness. How can we know which is which?

James Runcie

#6. Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain
maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon

Nick Bantock

#8. The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

Steven Pressfield

#9. Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Nora Roberts

#10. If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

Lisa Randall

#11. Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.

Mark Twain

#12. It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

#13. Both the imagination and the architecture are infinite.

Aleksandra Mizielinska

#14. For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

John M. McHugh

#15. I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez