Medea By Euripides Quotes

#1. The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease.

Euripides

#2. When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

Malcolm X

#3. Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.

Jerry Lawler

#4. It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Nelly Mazloum

#5. O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Euripides

#6. No one who goes against her can win.

Euripides

#7. To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Euripides

#8. Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.

Murray Rothbard

#9. If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Peter Medawar

#10. Time spent laughing is time well spent.

J.C. Phillipps

#11. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

#12. What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

Euripides

#13. Don't be afraid of the dark, it's a place where you can hide.

August Verona

#14. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.

Euripides

#15. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#16. My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.

Euripides

#17. death is the only water to wash away this dirt

Euripides

#18. The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.

Gabrielle Zevin

#19. no man,
is ever happy, no one.

Euripides

#20. A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.

Diana Gabaldon

#21. Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

David Wong

#22. Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

Margaret Thatcher

#23. Begin to see yourself as a person who notices instead of judges.

Wayne W. Dyer

#24. Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a being conducting itself spontaneously in its own natural way.

Oliver Sacks

#25. I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

Estella Warren