Best Xerxes Quotes

#1. Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves

Frank Miller

#2. Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Peter Singer

#3. There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Iain Banks

#4. I feel like real love should take time, or at least, more time than this. I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over, but I feel how I feel, and I know it's not going away.

R.K. Lilley

#5. Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

Jun Mochizuki

#6. Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.

Frank Miller

#7. Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

#8. The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

#9. The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.

Jun Mochizuki

#10. And I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ...

Ruth Ozeki

#11. Only by great risks can great results be achieved.

Xerxes I

#12. All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies.

Gore Vidal

#13. That I want nothing more than to put you on your back, on this table, and show you what it's like to really get fucked.

Karina Halle

#14. It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

James Russell Lowell

#15. When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#16. If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

Elliott Abrams

#17. After Connie and I broke up, I played a little game with myself out on the streets of Manhattan. It was called Things Could Be Worse. Things could be worse, I said to myself, I could be that guy.

Joshua Ferris

#18. I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

Emraan Hashmi

#19. Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don't believe that some women could live by love alone.

Joseph Conrad

#20. Once you realize the magic of life is inside you; its impossible not to see it outside as well.

Renae A. Sauter

#21. The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Annie Dillard

#22. Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson