Iphigenia Quotes

#1. The sea, as Euripides says in one of his plays about Iphigenia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

Christa Wolf

#3. In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants.

M.R. Carey

#4. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

Jay Park

#5. Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

Wendell Berry

#6. 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

Roald Dahl

#7. We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

Jorma Taccone

#8. I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

Newt Gingrich

#9. There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Donald Harington

#10. Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.

Knut Hamsun

#12. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Charles Caleb Colton

#13. Never let anyone tell you, your Black is not beautiful.

Habeeb Akande

#14. If you're comfortable with who you are, however, it becomes no problem to let others be their own selves around you: you have faith that whoever they are and whatever they do, you will be able to respond appropriately.

Derrick Jensen