Quotes About Hydra

#1. He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.

Naomi Novik

#2. If You're Disappointed Or Lost Something, Don't Stay In That Situation For Long ... Be Like Hydra Which Has Never Die Attitude ... When It Loses One Part of It's Body, It Reproduces Again ... So, Transform Your Pain To A New Birth ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#3. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

Arundhati Roy

#4. There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#5. Well you're slim and you're weak
You've got the teeth of a hydra upon you.
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl.

Marc Bolan

#6. They have forgotten much of what they once knew. They have even lost the secret of their origin. But I will give it to you, and this will give you a powerful advantage over them. Do you know the legend of the Hydra?

Christopher Pike

#7. Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. Q: How do you kill a hydra?
A: You strike at its heart.

Madeleine Roux

#9. The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Alan Moore

#10. From the necks up ... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.

Tera Lynn Childs

#11. Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#13. War is a hydra-headed monster; it produces more wars.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#14. I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#15. Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.

Anca Iovita

#16. I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

Emo Philips

#17. My pond life with hydra is over; now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

Munia Khan

#18. The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. My ideas are like a Hydra. Remove a bad one and two good ones will take its place.

Paul E. Petty

#21. Power is performative in every one of its hydra-headed forms.

Jeffrey Alexander

#22. The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

Richard Lamm

#23. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Peter Carey

#24. Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities ...

H. P. Blavatsky

#25. Eager to oppose Thomas Paine's prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of "the people" in its purest form. For Adams, "the people" was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.

Joseph J. Ellis

#26. One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

Allen West

#27. HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.

Sybille Bedford

#29. The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

Andrew Jackson

#30. hydra of revolution,

Leo Tolstoy

#31. None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.

Richard Dawkins