Sword Of Damocles Quotes

#1. Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.

Joseph Wambaugh

#2. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Larry Kramer

#3. He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it.

Pepper Winters

#4. The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

#5. She didn't need to say that she was going to die sooner or later while he wasn't, because the fact hung over their heads like the sword of Damocles that dangled by a single hair.

Thea Harrison

#6. Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Alma Gluck

#7. I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake.

Tobey Maguire

#8. There is a devil inside each one of us. Some just know to hide it too well.

Adwitiya Borah

#9. audiences have been successfully manipulated by those who use social evidence, even when that evidence has been openly falsified.

Robert B. Cialdini

#10. This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

Robert Gibbs

#12. It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.

Jorma Taccone

#13. It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

Rachel Johnson

#14. The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

Paul Klee

#15. It's true I don't know that much about Ligue 1, but Ligue 1 knows who I am.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#16. I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Joe E. Lewis

#17. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.

Albert Camus

#18. We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

Philip Hammond

#19. I guess it's hard to be the villain without a hero.

Lindsey Leavitt

#20. I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Tom Izzo

#21. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Richard Preston