They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on different days.

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

If you know that all is well you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun you know more than almost anybody else knows.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.