Glaucus Iliad Quotes & Sayings

My guys saw you on Fremont last week, Dan. You know what they saw you doing?" "Their mothers?" I replied. "Funny," he said and turned back to Juliette. — Craig Schaefer

If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others? — Lysander Spooner

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature. — Margaret J. Wheatley

With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer. — Sharon E. Rainey

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask. — Doris Lessing

For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others. — Anthony Everitt

Long moment there was only the sound of rain banking off the roof, like a thousand fingers tapping way off somewhere. — Ransom Riggs

Every day I have to be awake to escape ... The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life. — Karel Appel