Top 22 Hellas Quotes
#1. I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last Golden Era before the coming of Elua. Now, seeing it in action, I was not so sure.
Jacqueline Carey
#2. So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.
Isocrates
#3. Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
Alexander The Great
#4. How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!
Herodotus
#5. Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee Masters
#6. The attack, Lorcan supposed, was Hellas's way of telling him to keep his cock in his pants and mind out of the gutter.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. Rome had freed the Greeks, but on condition that both war and class war should end. Freedom without war was a novel and irksome life for the city-states that made up Hellas; the upper classes yearned to play power politics against neighboring cities, and
Will Durant
#8. I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
Brett Gardner
#9. As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.
Christine Lagarde
#10. There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
Lou Reed
#11. It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
Edie Sedgwick
#12. How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Anais Nin
#13. I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
Lina Wertmuller
#14. Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend.
Anthony Jeselnik
#16. Rylan grabbed the seat of her chair and moved it to the side where Kade was sitting. She pulled one hand from his lap and squeezed it between hers. You've got to have a little faith in me.
Courtney Giardina
#17. Why did you put spaghetti sauce into your cousin's drink?"
"Because I like it that way," said Sarah, taking the glass. "You have your chemical stimulants and I have mine, monkey.
Seanan McGuire
#18. How much better to follow a straight course and attain a goal where the words "pleasant" and "honourable" have the same meaning!
Seneca.
#19. As happens with all miracles, once life goes on, those who believe retell them with wonder. Those who do not, do not.
Mitch Albom
#20. If you want to live greatly, you must also be willing to risk greatly. To get to the pearls, the diver needs to be willing to go deep and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.
Robin S. Sharma
#21. I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.
Scott Baio
#22. Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
Henri Nouwen
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