Hoplite Quotes

#1. It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Saul Bellow

#2. No, hoplite fighting was more individual and more spread out - a matter of spear fighting, not a gigantic, demented rugby scrum.

J.E. Lendon

#3. For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

Bettany Hughes

#4. Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt.

Pope John Paul II

#5. Books to read. Bitches to push out of the door.

Barbara Elsborg

#6. What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

Hans Zimmer

#7. We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Mike Johanns

#8. It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

Maya Harris