Top 19 Halicarnassus Quotes
#2. The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#4. On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering.
Amartya Sen
#5. The 2003 flu season started early in North America, with the first cases showing up in the fall. By Thanksgiving doctors were seeing the usual flu-related pneumonias. As always, the most severe cases resulted from secondary bacterial infections in flu-congested lungs.
Jessica Snyder Sachs
#7. Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#8. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
Warren Buffett
#9. A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
Ryan Holiday
#10. A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#11. Each government minister views the circumstances of each issue differently. An interior minister has a different view of visa liberalization than does a foreign minister.
Thomas De Maiziere
#12. Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.
Steve Harvey
#13. She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.
Sage Steadman
#14. Formula 1 racing had a personal scandal right up at the top of its governing body that was so weird, that was so flagrantly salacious and bizarre, that I think it not only reassured American racing fans that Formula 1, yes, really is kind of weird.
Rachel Maddow
#15. Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#16. He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.
Charles Darwin
#17. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#18. When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
James Taylor
