Hektor Quotes & Sayings

All the way down the stairs and into the kitchen, Charlie yaps away. I nod and smile and smile and nod, and when she turns away, I form a gun with my hand, place it to my temple, and pull the trigger. — Victoria Scott

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading. — Caroline Alexander

If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded. — Heber J. Grant

I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it. — Rhona Mitra

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing — Darren LaCroix

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. — Oscar Wilde

His proxy turned and thrashed in his sleep, but Knox didn't wake him. His dreams, like everyone Else's, were his own. So were his nightmares. — Alex London

Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions,
nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement
but forever these hold feelings of hate for each other,
so there can be no love between you and me, nor shall there be
oaths between us, but one or the other must fall before then
to glut with his blood Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard. — Homer

I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them. — Noam Chomsky

Life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, — Jojo Moyes

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen. — Paul Budnitz

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian

She pushed up on her arms and took my face between her palms. "I love you." And then she kissed me so I could feel her love as much as I could hear it and see it. — Helena Hunting

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth. — Chogyam Trungpa

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all. A state of no-mind is meditation. When you can look without any mind interfering, distorting, interpreting, then you see the truth. The truth is already all around; just you have to put your mind aside. — Rajneesh