Peloponnesian Quotes

#1. Ridiculous! Why don't you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the Peloponnesian War?

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

#3. Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time ... .. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief."
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

William H Gass

#4. Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. An artist, if you'd really like to know who's fucking your wife.

Pella Grace

#6. There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

James Lee Burke

#7. Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

#8. In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Lydia Sigourney

#10. He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Francis Quarles

#11. Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Robert Browning

#12. Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought - and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ...

Gertrude Stein

#14. Justice has to be cold. Deal with it; it's just ice.

Natalya Vorobyova

#15. Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

#16. You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany ... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

Helmut Kohl