The Lotus Eaters Quotes

#1. The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Kronecker

#3. She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.

Markus Zusak

#4. I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

Shelley Conn

#5. Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

James Montgomery

#6. Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

Kim Basinger

#7. If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.

Koichi Haraguchi

#8. Ard to trust that after so much had been taken, so much could still be received.

Tatjana Soli

#9. The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Jack Kornfield

#10. Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in "Athalie"; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.

Thomas Hardy

#11. Ring the bells that still can ring.

Leonard Cohen

#12. I am not worthy." he said softly.
"Damn fucking straight," someone growled.

J.R. Ward

#13. We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

Michael Moorcock

#14. Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

Eric Thomas

#15. Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

Patrick Henry

#16. Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

Edmund White

#17. When I'm working, I always make time to get exercise into my schedule.

Daria Werbowy