Top 100 Quotes About Hector
#1. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
Alan Bennett
#2. Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name
Pittacus Lore
#3. Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. What has Hector ever done to me?
Madeline Miller
#4. My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of breath. Then a cry, low rising, increasing, then torn out of him, turned out of the depth of Hades... For Achilles, the only word 'Patroclus.
Byrne Fone
#5. Hector, if you get yourself killed again, when I take over Hades I'll give you a really long time-out in Tartarus,
Josephine Angelini
#6. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
C.S. Lewis
#7. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
Homer
#8. My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.
Miguel Cotto
#9. When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)
Louis Sachar
#10. Kiss me again:
If I now wanted heat of youth, these fires,
In Priam's veins, would thaw his frozen blood,
Enabling him to get a second Hector
For the defence of Troy.
Phillip Massinger
#11. You faced him down like a seasoned warrior," he [Hector] says.
"Only because I had your daggers at my back.
Rae Carson
#12. A plan will wait until we've camped for the night," I say.
From habit, I turn to look for Hector, seeking his quiet approval. I don't catch myself until it's too late, until I've lost him all over again.
Rae Carson
#13. The syrup of lilies hangs thick and sweet in the air, its cloying scent the traditional mask of death and rebirth: ashes and incense, rain and dirt, and something like rosin. It's the scent Hector associates with God. The scent of heavenly things.
Kimberly Morgan
#14. Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.
Edward Conlon
#15. I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#16. Achilles makes a sound like choking. "There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector's throat.
Madeline Miller
#17. When David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls he said, "Sights such as these must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,"' Hector told her softly.
Wilbur Smith
#18. Hurry," Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. "Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us." With a click, the call disconnected.
Linda Howard
#19. I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!
Richard Briers
#20. With him died a story
That will not be retold:
How, forsaking glory,
Achilles grows old
While Hector dusts his trophies
Behind high walls-
For in his unsung strophes
Troy never falls
R.S. Gwynn
#21. Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.
Ogden Nash
#24. Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle ... The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.
Hector Berlioz
#25. It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry,
Lemony Snicket
#26. Dr Rahmat thrust his hand between her legs, tried to kiss her and suggested that there was time for a quick one.'
'Meaning sexual intercourse?' Sir Hector was clearly not about to take the view that my client was offering his patient a small sherry.
John Mortimer
#27. These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?
Miles Cameron
#28. He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with ... Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her) ... he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow ... but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.
Francois Lelord
#29. Don't give a fuck if you're hot, wet and panting or pissed as hell, you're sleepin' by me, in my bed, at home. said Hector
Kristen Ashley
#30. Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
Ovid
#31. The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#32. Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere
"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#33. Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?
Jerry Coleman
#34. All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
Willa Cather
#35. No, no." I motion vaguely. "Relax. Don't look so ... guardlike." They drop formation at once, glancing at one another shamefaced. Hector draped an arm around my shoulder as if we were out for a companionable stroll. He leans down and says, "So. Horrible heat we've been having lately.
Rae Carson
#36. After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?
Umberto Eco
#37. Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
Junot Diaz
#38. How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?
Honorius Augustodunensis
#39. You look beautiful," Alodia says.
I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I'm beautiful to the one person who matters."
She nods. "Hector's mouth is going to drop open when he sees you."
"I hope so. But I meant me. I'm beautiful to me.
Rae Carson
#40. I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.
Diane Kruger
#41. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
William L.K.
#42. When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.
A. Lee Martinez
#43. As class ended, Hector announced, "I'm hungry."
" okay," Rider responded as I said to my notebook into my bag. " what exactly do you want me to do about it?"
Hector grinned as he glanced over at me and winked. " I want you to take me out and feed me." Rider snorted.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.
Pittacus Lore
#45. Is it wrong, Hector? he thought. That I should love a man who might have killed you?
Diana Gabaldon
#46. Hector? You call him Hector?"
"Well, I can hardly call out, 'Agent Chavez, oo Agent Chavez,' When he makes me climax, now can I?
Kristen Ashley
#47. I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
Francois Lelord
#48. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
Homer
#49. Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?
Honorius Augustodunensis
#50. Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he says. "I'm sorr - " "And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it.
Rae Carson
#51. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
Madeline Miller
#52. Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch.
Homer
#53. Edouard said that he didn't take Hector for a fool, but he could see that Hector had fallen in love, which was worse than being a fool.
Francois Lelord
#54. Belen shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars.
Rae Carson
#55. Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?
George Bernard Shaw
#56. All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
John Wilmot
#57. You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing."
"Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.
Neil M. Gunn
#58. If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
David Frost
#59. Beautiful," Andy breathed in awe as an iridescent butterfly tumbled past, just inches from her face.
"Definitely," Hector mumbled, staring at Andy and not the butterfly.
Josephine Angelini
#60. Eyebrows and hair singed off, Hector is barely recognizable under a lathering of day-glow orange. He appears to have been tarred-and-feathered with orange tar and oatmeal feathers.
Ray Palla
#61. [885] Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you
Homer
#62. Hubert, the great friend of Perceval, has only the steward's steward to bid him farewell," Wido said, clapping young Josson's back with undisguised delight. "The depth of Perceval's true love for Hubert is finally revealed." Josson smiled uneasily. "My lord Hector is busy with
Angela Elwell Hunt
#63. I like the 'Blackwell' adventure games, and I'm fond of some of Telltale's games, like 'Hector' and 'Puzzle Agent' - simple stories, but fun. I thought 'Heavy Rain' was amazing.
Jane Jensen
#64. Problem was, he couldn't masturbate his sexual desires away because he'd fry off his cock. Hector
Gena Showalter
#65. Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#66. Hugo pulled away from Rosie's teat. 'No one is allowed to touch my body without my permission.' His voice was shrill and confident. Hector wondered where he learnt those words. From Rosie? At child care? Were they community announcements on the frigging television?
Christos Tsiolkas
#67. Well Buddy's in the kitchen grating cheese like a grating fool. We've decided to do nacho's. Ralphie's gaze moved to Hector and he informed him, It's the food of your people.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone.
Alice Munro
#69. I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
Tahir Shah
#70. Bring Hector back to life, and I'll take your place in the Underworld for the rest of eternity.
Josephine Angelini
#71. Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.
Hector Berlioz
#72. I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
Hector Hugh Munro
#73. The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
Hector Hugh Munro
#74. Your healing begins with a step of faith in the Great Physician, Jesus Christ.
Hector Perez
#75. Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
Hector Hugh Munro
#76. It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.
Hector Hugh Munro
#77. Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
Hector Hugh Munro
#78. He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
Hector Hugh Munro
#79. Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
Rae Carson
#80. There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
Hector Hugh Munro
#81. When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
Hector Hugh Munro
#82. A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.
Hector Berlioz
#83. A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
Hector Hugh Munro
#84. I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
Hector Elizondo
#86. If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.
Pittacus Lore
#87. The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments ... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.
Hector Berlioz
#89. What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#90. A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.
Hector Berlioz
#91. The transnational availability of literary themes related to Nazism is a peculiar sign of cultural globalization. After
Hector Hoyos
#92. Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.
Hector Elizondo
#93. After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.
Hector Elizondo
#95. Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
Hector Tobar
#96. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
Hector Tobar
#97. Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Hector Hugh Munro
#98. Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Hector Hugh Munro
#99. In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.
Hector Tobar
