Halys Quotes

#1. They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

C. G. Jung

#2. Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

Thomas Huxley

#4. This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Mike DeWine

#5. are holding this book means you have more than a passing

Sue Pickering

#6. Except that, very rarely, when the sun shines on her in the same way the sun's rays light up the inside of Stonehenge once a year, Jack finds Ruthy mesmerising.

Jonathan Dunne

#7. Thank you, Pig Keeper," Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. "Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.

James Riley

#8. Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world - how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The

John Steinbeck

#10. Medicine and writing are natural companions.

Kevin Patterson

#11. But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

Kate Milford

#12. I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Russell Tovey