Quotes About Mede

#1. That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. Treachery," said the Mede.
"Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: Of what country are you, and how old are you, good sir? And how old were you when the Mede came?

Herodotus

#4. Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?'
Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight.
'You have your answer, Little Thief.

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Catherine Booth

#6. Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time ... and you might get something out of it.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#7. Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss.

Evan Currie

#8. Her capacity for love overshadows the stars, lightening crackles malevolently in the wake of her wrath and for all the tangled mess woman brings to man, in her glory, she is the divine Goddess.

Virginia Alison

#9. Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

Andy Stanley

#10. It is hard, but I have faith in him," Dragos said. "He may be small, but he's already proven that he has a big soul. He can handle it. And in the meantime, we'll put bars on his bedroom windows.

Thea Harrison

#11. Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

Price Pritchett

#12. My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

Brian Dennehy

#13. Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. It's okay to be insufferable as long as you're aware that you're being insufferable. At least that's how I justified it to myself.

Jessica Knoll

#16. Fall arrived with its honey light and cool evenings, and the maple leaves brightened to match the reds and yellow of ripe apples. It was time to put away the bounty of the warm months for fortitude during the cold ones, as humans had done for centuries.

Melissa Coleman