Archilochus Hedgehog Quotes & Sayings

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. — Mahatma Gandhi

My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The difference between BBC, ITV and CNN on the one hand and the channels from Belgium, Germany and France on the other was stark and disturbing. The 'coalition' output, which strongly influences public opinion in Britain, comprises reports from 'embedded' reporters telling us about the mud and dust, press conferences by generals describing the tip of the iceberg they wanted us to see and studio debates among armchair pundits. — David Walker

Had the ancient Greek poet Archilochus and the modern philosopher Isaiah Berlin been magically transported to northern Italy in November of 218 B.C., they might well have speculated on the strategic prospects. "Hannibal knows many things, but Rome knows one big thing," the Greek might have proposed. To which Berlin might have replied, "Perhaps at the outset. But then the fox could get stuck in a rut, and the hedgehog might learn new tricks." This would have been the Second Punic War epitomized. — Anonymous

Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death. — Michael Crichton

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. — Jaimal Yogis

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden

Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life. — Daisy Hernandez

...you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years. — Sophia Amoruso

Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope. — Harley King

Tell me the manner in which a patient commits suicide and I'll tell you how he can be cured — Luke Rhinehart

I'm not the same. How could I be the same? — Hilary T. Smith

The two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers. — Patricia Ireland

I wish we didn't have to tell this story. — Andy Garcia

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho

Find in Jesus the power to defeat every foe. — Katy Kauffman