Diodorus Siculus Quotes

#1. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#2. The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

Jim Evans

#3. It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

Diodorus Siculus

#4. The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Richard Powers

#5. She felt dirty, ugly and tired. She felt like a marshmallow heading into a house fire armed with chocolate and graham crackers.

Benjamin R. Smith

#6. Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription Medicine for the soul.

Diodorus Siculus

#7. Medicine for the soul.

Diodorus Siculus

#8. Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

Amy Ray

#9. The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Diodorus Siculus

#10. I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

#11. Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Victor Hugo

#12. I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Jose Carreras

#13. When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.

Sherwood Smith

#14. People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.

Maxwell

#15. Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

Diodorus Siculus

#16. Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Marah Ellis Ryan

#17. I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

Laurie Helgoe

#18. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#19. Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

Bill Moyers

#20. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

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