In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
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KELLY JONES No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
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IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the G...
SOCRATES A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem.
RIG VEDA The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
GEORGE LLOYD Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature.
VOLTAIRE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Human nature is above all things lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Human nature is above all things—lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the br...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their c...
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REUVEN RIVLIN Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by jud...
ELIHU ROOT In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must ther...
G. W. F. HEGEL Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in wh...
ERNEST WALTON there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
JOHN GREEN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places which it arrived at last, from havi...
THUCYDIDES We will be looking to sell the business and are confident this will be achieved, as the Hunter brand...
RICHARD FLEMING As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarsh...
G.H. HARDY The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
HAROLD BLOOM Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religi...
EMIL NOLDE God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
AMIT RAY It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.
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SUZANNE PALMIERI I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations o...
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
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"Sadie," My d...
RICK RIORDAN Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get ...
ALEXANDER HERZEN We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not ex...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks pa...
ANGELA CARTER There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.
JASON ZEBEHAZY That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes,...
TIM BIRKHEAD When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN Stop and unplug,” say I; “look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.�...
FENNEL HUDSON All the truth in the world is held in stories.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.
HJALMAR BRANTING Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, ...
WALTER BAGEHOT FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, freque...
AMBROSE BIERCE “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belongi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerles...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that ...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if th...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in sc...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
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ELIE METCHNIKOFF He is the blessed seed of the Messiah. He wouldn't be seen as divine as Haile Selassie, but as being...
MICHAEL BARRETT All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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ELIE WIESEL Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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ELIE WIESEL Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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ELIE WIESEL I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
ELIE WIESEL In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The kill...
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ELIE WIESEL I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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ELIE WIESEL I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to rememb...
ELIE WIESEL I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discours...
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ELIE WIESEL We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the ...
ELIE WIESEL Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendsh...
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that ki...
ELIE WIESEL Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one min...
ELIE WIESEL Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference ...
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ELIE WIESEL I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot...
ELIE WIESEL Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such...
ELIE WIESEL I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of N...
ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, exc...
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ELIE WIESEL The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
ELIE WEISEL Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESEL A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
ELIE WIESEL Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESEL It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon wh...
ELIE WIESEL I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestin...
ELIE WIESEL I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each o...
ELIE WIESEL Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can ...
ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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ELIE WIESEL I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story ...
ELIE WIESEL Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no ...
ELIE WIESEL We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only ...
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ELIE WIESEL I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something...
ELIE WIESEL Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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ELIE WIESEL There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when w...
ELIE WIESEL There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
ELIE WIESEL Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL Peace is our gift to each other.
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ELIE WIESEL My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm trans...
ELIE SAAB I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or q...
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ELIE DUCOMMUN The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indi...
ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, e...
ELIE WIESEL God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
ELIE WIESEL In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
ELIE WIESEL There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts a...
ELIE COHEN once a refugee, always a refugee.
ELIE WIESEL One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
ELIE WIESEL I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
ELIE WIESEL To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuan...
ELIE WIESEL If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
ELIE WIESEL Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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ELIE WIESEL Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
ELIE WIESEL Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
ELIE WIESEL If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
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ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al...
ELIE WIESEL I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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ELIE WIESEL Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...
ELIE WIESEL His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone el...
ELIE WIESEL I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
ELIE WIESEL We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with i...
ELIE WIESEL Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is m...
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ELIE WIESEL I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, defor...
ELIE WIESEL Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean – what they symbolize –...
ELIE WIESEL The letter was a very special letter, and it touched me, ... I said, 'How can I say no?'
ELIE WIESEL I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him...
ELIE WIESEL Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intell...
ELIE DUCOMMUN I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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ELIE WIESEL At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
ELIE WIESEL I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is o...
ELIE WIESEL I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I pr...
ELIE WIESEL We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers kno...
ELIE WIESEL [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation /memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
ELIE WIESEL I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
ELIE WIESEL I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis.
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ELIE WIESEL It's not there just to enjoy.
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ELIE WIESEL It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doe...
ELIE WIESEL Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good.
ELIE WIESEL My faceless neighbor spoke up:
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ELIE WIESEL He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in th...
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ELIE WIESEL For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
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ELIE WIESEL No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
ELIE WIESEL I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.
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ELIE WIESEL From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me...
ELIE WIESEL We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn...
ELIE WIESEL Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Nev...
ELIE WIESEL The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
ELIE WIESEL If there is a crisis in the world, the U.N. should send a task force immediately, within 24 hours,
ELIE WIESEL Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other...
ELIE WIESEL Terrorism knows no borders. Therefore, opposition to terrorism must know no borders.
ELIE WIESEL Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life
ELIE WIESEL Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
ELIE WIESEL We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it...
ELIE WIESEL It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than word...
ELIE WIESEL I write to understand as much as to be understood
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ELIE WIESEL But you get used to anything.
ELIE WIESEL After all, God is God because he remembers.
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ELIE SAAB The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference
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ELIE WIESEL They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w...
ELIE WIESEL Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
ELIE WIESEL For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and f...
ELIE WIESEL For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequen...
ELIE WIESEL I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m...
ELIE WIESEL Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging o...
ELIE WIESEL Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
ELIE WIESEL We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionis...
ELIE WIESEL When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childho...
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ELIE WURTMAN There is an abundance of creative talent in Jerusalem that has yet to be explored. By focusing on me...
ELIE WURTMAN I've never had negative feedback.
ELIE WADE We gave them the information, and they wrote the script. They did everything.
ELIE WADE We make mortgage loans, so one of the things we put on the message is a list of things you need to b...
ELIE WADE I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
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ELIE DEKEL Dozens and dozens of television properties are enjoying licensing, from reality, to drama to comedy ...
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ELIE DARWICH It appears clear that she was right.
ELIE DARWICH If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.
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ELIE BARNAVI I would be the first to admit that the idea of writing the history of Europe is loaded.
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ELIE WIESEL I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...
ELIE WIESEL We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subse...
ELIE WIESEL It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, conso...
ELIE DUCOMMUN I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of...
ELIE TAHARI I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.
ELIE TAHARI I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it...
ELIE SAAB If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
ELIE SAAB I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
ELIE SAAB