Grotius Hugo Quotes

#1. Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Hugo Grotius

#2. I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#3. You always trade blood for joy. It's always a deal struck in the wet and the dark. Al didn't make the rules. He just dances to the song that's playing.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#5. If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries ... simply because they have much less to lose.

Don Hertzfeldt

#6. She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn't frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

T.M. Williams

#7. Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.

Stefano Pilati

#8. Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Hugo Grotius

#9. We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

Harry S. Truman

#10. such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,

Masha Gessen

#11. Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#12. The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

Bernardino Leon

#13. For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.

Harold Bloom

#14. This life of ours ... human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up
no more flower.

Anton Chekhov

#15. By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#16. Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

#17. Believe that the anointing of God will find a way - even where you yourself don't see that there is a way. The anointing of the Lord will show the way - whatever the day and age, situation or country you may be living in.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Hugo Grotius

#19. A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Hugo Grotius

#20. As long as you keep searching,the answers will come.

Mitch Kynock

#21. A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

#22. When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.

Neal Shusterman