Quotes About Orestes

#1. Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Simone Weil

#3. Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Ella Maillart

#5. Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love - or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.

Aeschylus

#7. I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Orestes Brownson

#8. I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

Mindy Grossman

#9. It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

David Suzuki

#10. If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all

Hamza Yusuf

#11. His alpha powers were strong, but she was going to be the feisty, spunky heroine stereotype and get her own way this time.

Liza Street

#12. To be sensitive to the beauty of something is to perceive the totality of it. The mind that is thinking in terms of a part can never perceive the whole. In the whole the part is contained, but the part will never make up the whole, the total.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

Orestes Brownson

#14. Never had ill workeman good tooles.

George Herbert

#15. Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Orestes Brownson

#16. If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Orestes Brownson

#17. There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel ... diminished. When that happens, we'll do almost anything to feel so alive again.

Peter V. Brett

#18. Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Seneca The Younger

#20. If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

Orestes Brownson