Fire From Heaven Mary Renault Quotes

#1. The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

Desmond Tutu

#2. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

Taylor Mali

#3. Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

Mary Renault

#4. Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

Pieter Zeeman

#5. (Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.'
(Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

Mary Renault

#6. She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.

Mary Renault

#7. Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

Vince Vaughn

#8. I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

Tim Vine

#9. It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Lasse Hallstrom

#10. Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Alice Hoffman

#11. Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#12. It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

Arlen Specter

#13. Give that woman an inch and she takes the entire British Isles.

Sarah Jane Stratford

#14. Listen to that voice that tells you not to trust someone, even though he's deliciously charming, remember Wickham and Willoughby and all those cads. And give another man a chance, even though he's not your usual type - remember Mr Knightly and Colonel Brandon and all those quiet heroes.

Menna Van Praag

#15. How did the infant sent away from his family grow up to redefine the whole concept of family and tribe into something far larger: the umma, the people or the community of Islam?

Lesley Hazleton