Epic Of Gilgamesh Quotes & Sayings

Okay, Fine. I'm glad you didn't drown. Sort of. Good luck with whatever it is you're doing out here. — Frankie Rose

What have you known of loss
That makes you different from other men?
- The Epic of Gilgamesh — Aga Shahid Ali

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh). — Ben Shapiro

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. — Robert Brault

You can't dominate a network with old-style leadership.

But, you can emerge, with the network's consent, as one of its leaders, regardless of your formal position or job title. — Phil Dourado

Rise and rise again and again
like The Phoenix from the ashes;
until the lambs have become lions. — Maitreya

What you seek you shall never find.
For when the Gods made man,
They kept immortality to themselves.
Fill your belly.
Day and night make merry.
Let Days be full of joy.
Love the child who holds your hand.
Let your wife delight in your embrace.
For these alone are the concerns of man. — The Epic Of Gilgamesh

In this regard, professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington Dr. Brannon M. Wheeler states, "The Muslim exegetical image of Moses in the Quran is linked with ancient Sumerian stories of Gilgamesh..."1678 Wheeler further says: In Muslim exegesis on the episode of Moses at the well of Midian there are several allusions to elements from the Epic of Gilgamesh.... — D.M. Murdock

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to. — David Suchet

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you. — Deepak Chopra

What does the name of an author on the jacket matter? Let us move forward in thought to three thousand years from now. Who knows which books from our period will be saved, and who knows which authors' names will be remembered? Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; other authors' names will still be well know, but none of their works will survive, as was the case with Socrates; or perhaps all the surviving books will be attributed to a single, mysterious author, like Homer. — Italo Calvino

What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me. — The Epic Of Gilgamesh

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. — Thom Mayne

My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio. — Frankie Valli

Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic: a living body of narrative that many people know by heart, and tell over and over again - making their own personal embellishments whenever it strikes their fancy. The bad embellishments are shouted down, the good ones picked up by others, polished, improved, and, over time, incorporated into the story. [ ... ] Thus Unix has slowly accreted around a simple kernel and acquired a kind of complexity and asymmetry about it that is organic, like the roots of a tree, or the branchings of a coronary artery. Understanding it is more like anatomy than physics. — Neal Stephenson

But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79] — Herbert Mason

Why, O Gish, does thou run about?
The life that thou seekest, thou wilt not find. — Anonymous

My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters. — Bela Karolyi

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things. — Damian Woetzel

Kim stayed for as long as she could stand it but, in the end, decided that the entire industry had a perennial dose of priapism, and moved on. — Jane Horan

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion. — Gene Robinson

Although the disappearance of the true wildwood [in the British Isles] occurred in the Neolithic period, before humanity began to record its own history, creation myths in almost all cultures look fabulously back to a forested earth. In the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, the quest-story which begins world literature, Gilgamesh sets out on his journey from Uruk to the Cedar Mountains, where he has been charged to slay the Huwawa, the guardian of the forest. The Roman empire also defined itself against the forests in which its capital city was first established, and out of which its founders, the wolf-suckled twins, emerged. It was the Roman Empire which would proceed to destroy the dense forests of the ancient world. — Robert Macfarlane

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France. — Francois Hollande