Quotes About Athens And Sparta

#1. Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

Katha Pollitt

#2. I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.

Marie Helvin

#3. Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Shepherd Mead

#4. Popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it ... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

John Romero

#6. We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

Edward Zigler

#7. You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

Nick Cassavetes

#8. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

Thucydides

#9. Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule my own fate.

Amalia Carosella

#10. Justice. That's what we're supposed to be learning.The law ... the law should be fair. Power should be used fairly.

Anne Osterlund

#11. I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

Gerard Majella

#12. I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

John Keegan

#13. Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann and by Aschenbach (it's in Mahler, as well). So life is inevitably incomplete.

Philip Kitcher

#14. I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.

Sheridan Hay

#15. They valued themselves. Once, they knew God valued them. Then they began to think there was no God, only blind forces. So they valued themselves, they loved themselves and attended to their natures -

A.S. Byatt

#16. We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Benjamin Franklin