Xenophon Quotes

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

Xenophon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 430 BC - 357 BC

Topics

ManPlantFarmHouseBuildNever

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

Jim Talent

GrowthKeep GoingJobMovingWhy

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

LifeLearningMoneyYouOnlyAbout

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

John Howard

PersonBeliefBeyondBecauseJust

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Angelina Jolie

LifeMomentPerspectiveFocusChild

I never view myself as a leader.

Jeff Hardy

LeaderMyselfViewNever

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Stanley Hauerwas

GodSinKnowThroughOwnOur

In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.

Stephanie Coontz

FamilyDiversityGrowingOverPanic

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

Tom Brokaw

ThinkInternetPoliticalNewsKind

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Mary Szybist

CommunicationPrayerMovingVoice

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

BeautyThinkDifferencesUniqueness

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Lucian Freud

MePaintingBodyLookChoiceWill

We have a great set-up in Las Vegas. I love being in Vegas; all our camps will be in Vegas. We are just going to spend more time in the U.K. in terms of fighting. But New Zealand will still be home for me.

Joseph Parker

LoveHomeGreatTimeMeFighting

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