Apophis Quotes

#1. Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

Rick Riordan

#2. You are strong ... Together we will rule the world."
"You mean, 'Together we will defeat Apophis,'" my mother corrected.
"Of course," Isis said. "That's what I meant.

Rick Riordan

#3. How do I defeat Apophis?"
"I'm so glad you asked!" Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. "Unfortunately, I can't tell you."
I glanced at Walt. "Do you want to kill him, or should I?

Rick Riordan

#4. Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

Rick Riordan

#6. Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.

Rusty Schweickart

#7. Zia's senile grandfather? Nope. That was Ra, god of the sun, first divine pharaoh of Egypt and archenemy of Apophis. Last spring we'd gone on a quest to find him and revive him from his twilight sleep, trusting he would rise in all his glory and fight the Chaos snake for us.

Rick Riordan

#8. Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane.
"Oh."
[great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]

Rick Riordan

#9. Right ... so when Apophis breaks out, he'll try to destroy Ma'at, the order of the universe. He'll swallow the sun, plunge the earth into eternal darkness, and otherwise make us have a very bad day.

Rick Riordan

#10. The surgeons like to bleed a man, to let ill humours out, so that he may face the world anew. Perhaps they should just hand him a quill and let the poisons spill from him whilst he keeps his blood for its intended purpose.

Mark Lawrence

#11. Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

John Dickinson

#12. As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Robert De Niro

#13. Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

Bill Cosby

#14. I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.

Ippy Aiona

#15. No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Robert W. Chambers

#16. When 28,000 buildings fall do you know how many walls are no longer there?

Andrea Gibson

#17. So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.

Gillian Flynn

#18. There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

Henry Suso

#19. There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

James Otis

#20. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

J.B. Priestley

#21. For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

Brett Armstrong

#22. Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.

Philip K. Dick

#23. It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.

Jean Ferris

#24. At this point, I couldn't even make out the helicopter's shape; it was just a gray blur in the distance, and so was everything it represented.

Embee