Fifth Century Quotes

#1. first ever military cryptographic device, the Spartan scytale, dating back to the fifth century B.C. The scytale is a wooden staff around which a strip of leather or parchment is wound,

Simon Singh

#2. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

Moses Finley

#3. If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.

Milton R. Hunter

#4. It's one thing to study war
and another to live the warrior's life.
- Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.

Steven Pressfield

#5. I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

Donna Tartt

#7. The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

Robert Fagles

#8. The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.

Anonymous

#9. To the end, no matter what it is you are considering. Often enough, God gives a man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him. THE HISTORIES, HERODOTUS, FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Indians

Robert Greene

#10. The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#11. Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!

David Berg

#12. As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Eric Wilson

#13. It's not normal to be afraid of happiness, but I've learned over time that for each day of happy I get five of not so much.

Jordan Silver

#14. I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

Gin Wigmore

#15. It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

Pete Hamill

#16. Who we are determines what we have, and what we have is because of who we are.

Luke T. Jones

#17. People start aging from early, very early, on. Gradually it spreads over their entire body like a stain that cannot be wiped away.

Haruki Murakami

#18. One of the inherent challenges with initiatives such as DevOps transformations is that they are inevitably in conflict with ongoing business operations. Part

Gene Kim

#19. Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

John Fairclough

#20. Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

Ardyth Kennelly

#21. I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

Maya Angelou

#22. Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters.

Melanie Benjamin

#23. Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Edward Sapir

#24. You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?" said he. "Never.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. Spirituality is not like a water faucet in that it can be turned off or turned on at will. Some make the fatal error of assuming that religion is for others now and perhaps someday for us. Such thinking is not based on fact or experience, for we are daily becoming what we shall be.

Thomas S. Monson

#26. In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households.

Robert D. Putnam

#27. Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Donna Shalala

#28. He lets me take the orders, standing at my side like
my own personal Mexican food encyclopedia

Suzanne Young