Scylla's Quotes

#1. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!

Catullus

#2. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. We are
the scylla sisters.
We love
each other
so much
though sometimes it hurts
and sometimes it is joy
and always
together.
We love each other.
Because no one else will.

Kate Griffin

#4. I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

#5. Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

Elizabeth Janeway

#6. You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

Ethan Zuckerman

#7. Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#8. Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he'd worked hard to project a retiring asexuality. As far as his coworkers knew, he lived with only his books for company. Still, he relished her name in his mouth. "Regan.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.

Earl Nightingale

#10. Be strong enough to move mountains.

Karen Quan

#11. This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

John Henry Newman

#12. (S)ome people go through their whole life just having one-night stands with the same person.

Scylla

#13. Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#14. between Scylla and Charybdis,

Alison Weir

#15. Fancy me between Scylla and Charybdis.

Henry James

#16. Why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?

Kristin Cashore

#17. He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Douglas

#18. Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction ... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

#19. India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

Vijay Mallya

#20. It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

Tito Colliander

#21. But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

Lewis Carroll

#22. Less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Robert Jackson

#24. When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

Ben Barnes

#25. The self was both its origins and its journey.

Salman Rushdie

#26. He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

Beverly Lewis