Quotes About Kleos

#1. For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Rebecca Goldstein

#2. Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

Rebecca Goldstein

#3. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H.G.Wells

#4. A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

Louise Wilson

#5. My mom quickly tired of having to hold the cake out of my reach. She tried to hide the cake, but I found it almost immediately. She tried putting the cake on top of the refrigerator, but my freakish climbing abilities soon proved it to be an unsatisfactory solution.

Allie Brosh

#6. The relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

#8. Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Tony La Russa

#9. I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

Zephyr Teachout

#10. The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. What happened to romance?

Alex Flinn

#12. Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Lloyd Alexander

#13. The simplest answer is to act.

A.S. King

#14. Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

Suzy Kassem