Thetis Quotes

#1. My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.

Homer

#2. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

Eula Biss

#3. To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth

Richelle Mead

#4. I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

Richard Ayoade

#5. As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

Madeline Miller

#6. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Matthew McConaughey

#7. I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

Dan Marino

#8. In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man ... '

Carl Jung

#9. My dad was an English professor.

Blake Lively

#10. I love you so" I said as I slashed her throat from ear to ear.

Shadow Mandoll

#11. I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

#12. It occurred to me, while sitting on the cold white toilet seat pretending to pee in order to avoid Bob, that I much preferred having the power over the man and deciding when to cut the cord, over being powerless and on the receiving end of the silent fade-away.

Meredith Schorr

#13. My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

Buffalo Bill

#14. A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#15. If there is any trouble within your heart - be free, in the name of Jesus Christ

T. B. Joshua

#16. I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

Afrojack

#17. People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'

Mary Quant

#18. To truly increase and multiply, you need to recognize, develop and deploy your gifts.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#19. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Wendell Berry