Aeschylean Quotes

#1. Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.

Thomas Hardy

#2. The purpose creates the machine.

Arthur Young

#3. You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

Jennifer Garner

#4. For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Herodotus

#5. If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

John Havlicek

#6. THERE ARE THOSE WHO COME UPON A CHOICE, A CHANCE, AND TREMBLE AND FEAR - WHY SHOULD I ALLOW THEM IN MY SHADOW?

Robert Jackson Bennett

#7. 'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

Josemaria Escriva

#8. As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

#9. She grumbled, she said sarcastically that men place such an enormous importance on fucking, she laughed: not Marcello - although even he doesn't joke - but Michele, who went crazy, he's been obsessed with me for a long time, and even runs after the shadow of my shadow.

Elena Ferrante

#10. I never understood why she didn't marry you."
The king settled further into the seat with a snort. "Maybe the prospect of being driven out of her mind put her off.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.

Peter Schiff

#12. Gotta get it, even if it's in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday.

Lil' Wayne

#13. It wants, but does not demand. It asks, but doesn't take. It gives, and pleads for more. It is filled with desire, but also curiosity, and it teaches me that a kiss should come gift wrapped, not stripped naked

Ellen Hopkins

#14. The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

Lori Lansens

#15. The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Robinson Jeffers