Homeric Hero Quotes

#1. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

W. H. Auden

#2. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

Alexandra Fuller

#3. You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#5. PML?" I asked. "Postmortem link." All corporations had their acronyms, but SPI was a special snowflake.

Lisa Shearin

#6. I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me

Mia Sheridan

#7. My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.

Sri Aurobindo

#8. I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

William Goldman

#9. For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

Jon M. Chu

#11. The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.

Newton Lee

#12. What are they fighting about?"
Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture."
"Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Dawn Jayne