Cyrene Quotes

#1. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

Cyril Connolly

#2. The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood ... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

Cassius Dio

#3. Still, waking up this early was just wrong. "Why can't people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?" I whined.

Diana Rowland

#4. Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. ...seven core emotions show up chemically in the body: Love, Joy, Hope, Sadness, Envy, Anger, Fear

Shawn Kent Hayashi

#6. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.

Tom Clancy

#7. When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that's a sign you are close to your victory.

Joel Osteen

#8. I've turned down too many gods to
Start inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either.

Joanna McClure

#9. If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

Sallie Krawcheck

#10. My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

Sargent Shriver

#11. We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

Yitzhak Rabin

#12. Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.

Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

#13. The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

George R R Martin

#14. The bitch does not stop moving to her own rhythm. This, in and of itself, prevents her from becoming off-balance like a nice girl who abandons her routine.

Sherry Argov

#15. Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody

Nikki Giovanni

#16. Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

Ricky Williams