Damocles Quotes

#1. She didn't need to say that she was going to die sooner or later while he wasn't, because the fact hung over their heads like the sword of Damocles that dangled by a single hair.

Thea Harrison

#2. Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.

Joseph Wambaugh

#3. We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

Philip Hammond

#4. Even Damocles developed a routine.

Johnny Rich

#5. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Larry Kramer

#6. He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it.

Pepper Winters

#7. The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

#8. A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

Georg Trakl

#9. But how will I know if he's acting strange?" Ceony asked. "He's strange already." Mg.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#10. But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst

#11. That's your solution? Have a cookie?

Michael Grant

#12. I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Sto fidgeting Bella please try to a murder here.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

Julian Clary