Quotes About Olympias

#1. Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

Laura Riding

#2. You must be talking about my new friend. The woman named Tilda.
- Olympias

James Dashner

#3. What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

Laura Riding

#4. A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

Erno Rubik

#5. I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Tim Berners-Lee

#6. For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

John Armstrong

#7. Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

Bryant McGill

#8. I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar N. Bradley

#9. No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Byron Katie

#10. Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

Idries Shah

#11. As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

George Carlin