Diodorus Quotes

#1. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#2. I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

Winona Ryder

#3. Hey. We good?" Christian asked.

They were all watching me, even the creepy doll head.

So I closed my eyes and said what I said best.

Nothing.

Sarah Ockler

#4. Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright.

Ann Voskamp

#5. The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

Diodorus Siculus

#8. Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription Medicine for the soul.

Diodorus Siculus

#10. Medicine for the soul.

Diodorus Siculus

#11. Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Diodorus Siculus

#13. Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Italo Calvino

#14. If you don't have a goal, any road will do.

Charles Tart

#15. Technology is the gene uncorked.

Jon Jones

#16. As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

Bill Bryson

#17. Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Sharon Creech

#18. Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

Diodorus Siculus