English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thucydides Quotes

Thucydides quote: "Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes,..."

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Thucydides

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over. Slash
Charles loved her voice. It was so soft and blurred, like pastels. It made his neck tingle just to listen to her. It gave him the same delicious feeling he had as he hovered on the brink of sleep and this feeling - until now - had been the single most pleasant feeling in his life. It was the voice that coloured everything he now thought about her. It was shy and tentative and musical. Sometimes he did not manage to hear the words she said, but he did not let on about his deafness. Peter Carey
Catherine II quote: "In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances,..."
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. Catherine II
Heidi Klum quote: "As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things."
As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things. Heidi Klum
We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow. Francis Maude
I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk. David Carradine
Doug Coupland quote: "As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth,..."
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. Doug Coupland
Louisa May Alcott quote: "feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was..."
feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. Louisa May Alcott
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. Jane Austen
Terence quote: "Fortune favors the brave."
Fortune favors the brave. Terence
John Oates quote: "I just like playing with the band and doing what I do."
I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. John Oates
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures. Tab Hunter
Count Basie quote: "Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the..."
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! Count Basie
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left mebroken-hearted. Edgar Allan Poe
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy