#lie

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ↗

— Herodotus

#calumny #doubly #first #him #injured

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. ↗

— Herodotus

#believe #bound #case #every #i

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#band #band members #based #bus #chosen

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#beloved #bread #found #freedom #honor

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#bad #bad fortune #believe #believed #come

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#finding #loss #funny

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#basic #basic research #basis #invest #losing

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#believe #charming #disgusting #hopeless #hopeless romantic

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#clues #constitutional #development #experience #labour