Quotes About Diagoras

#1. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.

Athenagoras Of Athens

#2. If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras.
"Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever."
"Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

David Gemmell

#3. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county

Chris Cleave

#4. You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not really walking into a story, but running away from a history that chases them throughout time.

Christopher Herz

#5. Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

Josh Bernstein

#6. You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother.

Rachel Vincent

#7. To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Tom Robbins

#8. In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

Pauline Kael

#9. Two hands are better than four sometimes.

Antonia White

#10. While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

Paul David Tripp

#12. I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

Robert Genn

#15. You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Cass McCombs