King Croesus 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. But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.

Dani Shapiro

#3. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

William James

#4. She's beauty for my ashes. And I'm hope for her heartache.

M. Leighton

#5. The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme,

Esperanza Spalding

#6. The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

#8. hanging files - and a shallow

Annelise Ryan

#9. If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.

Pedro Noguera