Edith Hamilton quote: "He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory."

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

Love cannot live where there is no trust.
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress ...
EDITH HAMILTON

In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven ...
EDITH HAMILTON

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect any...
EDITH HAMILTON

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
EDITH HAMILTON

The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.
EDITH HAMILTON

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
EDITH WIDDER

Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
EDITH WIDDER

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER

We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER

We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER

In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER

I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER

The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER

It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER

Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER

During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER

Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN

During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN

The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN

Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN

Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN

Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN

Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN

If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN

My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS

The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN

In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
EDITH HEAD

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
EDITH HEAD

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin...
EDITH HEAD

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
EDITH HEAD

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ...
EDITH HEAD

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD

Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
EDITH SITWELL

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON

I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
EDITH SITWELL

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL

Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD

Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate...
EDITH WIDDER

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
EDITH WIDDER

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al...
EDITH WIDDER

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog...
EDITH WIDDER

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL

In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD

I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON

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