
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.25 p. 183
Religious-based Quotes
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 128
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.25 p. 183
Religious-based Quotes
“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
Rolling Stone interview (1988)
"The Companion" (1954), line 45; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 58.
Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Context: I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
Paul O. Schmidt to Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946.