Thucydides Quotes

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 460 BC - 395 BC

Topics

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One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.

Jesmyn Ward

LiveYouKnowImportantWantBeyond

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

Joel Kinnaman

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The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

Jennifer Ehle

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I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

Andrew Bird

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I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.

Max Minghella

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I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

Maurice Gibb

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I don't even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I'd never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I'm doing, and that takes time.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.

Mick Cornett

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On every single picture on my Instagram page, you'll find a negative comment. My supporters will normally stand up to that hateful person, and then it will become a big argument, and it's just a lot. I try to tell myself not to listen to the haters, and I try not to read the comments because it's not worth it.

Jazz Jennings

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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Drew Barrymore

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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Alice Sebold

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I was unusual looking - I didn't have the look of that time. If you look at 'Lucas' - and, basically, my first five or six movies - the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.

Winona Ryder

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