Quotes About Charybdis

#1. But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

Elizabeth Janeway

#3. Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#4. Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he'd worked hard to project a retiring asexuality. As far as his coworkers knew, he lived with only his books for company. Still, he relished her name in his mouth. "Regan.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. I," said Lymond, in the voice unmistakably his which honeyed his most lethal thoughts, "I am a narwhal looking for my virgin. I have sucked up the sea like Charybdis and failing other entertainment will spew it three times daily, for a fee.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

John Henry Newman

#7. Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#8. between Scylla and Charybdis,

Alison Weir

#9. Fancy me between Scylla and Charybdis.

Henry James

#10. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Douglas

#12. The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Robert Jackson

#13. A terrible day," Frank echoes.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway.

Nina LaCour

#14. Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.

Kristin Hannah

#15. Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.

Cambria Hebert

#16. I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

T-Pain

#17. Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.

Diane Cameron

#18. the ladies, young or old. There is no resisting a cockade,

Jane Austen

#19. She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.

Pierce Brown