Gordian Quotes

#1. Binder didn't plan on being disappointed either. He felt a growing obsession to unstring the secrets the house held, to unravel the Gordian knot time and myth had only tightened.

William Gay

#2. As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

Richard Dooling

#3. Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...

Robert C. Harvey

#4. True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

Immanuel Kant

#5. I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

Orson Scott Card

#6. I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments.

Andrew Levkoff

#7. Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

#8. Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home ...
Gordian Pierce

Kim Harrison

#9. Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.

Diana Peterfreund

#10. Gordian knot, a knot impossible to unravel, and Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting through it with his sword, in other words by cheating.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#12. I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

Rands

#13. So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...

Ellen Glasgow

#14. Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Blaise Pascal

#15. I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

Maurice Sendak

#16. We lighten the loads of others best by helping the Lord strengthen them.

Henry B. Eyring

#17. Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.

Katrina Kenison

#18. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times

John Steinbeck

#19. Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.

Stephen Richards

#20. I want to be the George Clooney of music.

George Clooney

#21. We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

Albert Pike

#22. What is deeply felt is never lost.

Marty Rubin

#23. You are what you practice, so what is it that you're practicing?

Chris Moore

#24. There is no progress without product.

Robert Genn

#25. I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.

Kim Harrison

#26. I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

Sylvia Plath

#27. Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

Libba Bray

#28. Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Suriya