532 Quotes About Biography

...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-like serfs, leaving their Greek overlords to live in comfort and harmony, at last capable of elevation to all that was finest about Hellenic civilization.

The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense sense of superiority. They were master over subjects whose language and culture held no interest or value for them, apart from its luxury, wealth, and famously beautiful women.

History does not allow you to repeat the same story in your biography

And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water.

Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man who raped and beat me would kill me. But death had never come. In the checkpoint bathroom, I began to cry. For the first time since I left Kocho, I thought I actually might die. And I also knew for sure that I didn't want to.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space.There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I'm warm.

The photographer frames the shot, writers frame their world.

... it is the purpose of this history to trace not the mere outlines of a life but the inner plan, not the external markings but the secret soul.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.