Robert Fagles Quotes

#1. Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In

Bill O'Reilly

#2. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

#3. The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

Robert Fagles

#4. Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

James Salter

#5. At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

Dan Colen

#6. I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

Edmund Phelps

#7. A place ain't a place without a bookstore,

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

Robert Fagles

#9. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

#10. I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

Billy Crystal

#11. The armies massing ... crowding thick-and-fast
as the swarms of flies seething over the shepherds' stalls
in the first spring days when the buckets flood with milk-
so many long-haired Achaeans swarmed across the plain
to confront the Trojans, fired to smash their lines

Fagles Robert

#12. The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

Robert Fagles