Quotes & Sayings About Hubris In The Odyssey

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. — Richard Rohr

I've ridden 3,651 winners, if that's any good to you. I don't count the falls. I count the winners. — Tony McCoy

I wanted to believe, of course, but I wanted to believe with my intellectual integrity and intuition intact, with both my head and heart fully engaged. The more I was asked to choose, the more fragmented and frayed my faith became, the more it stretched the gossamer of belief that held my world view together. — Rachel Held Evans

deliberately look for God in the ordinary moments of everyday life. — John Ortberg

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. — George Gilder

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. — Karl Marx

Everything in existence matters - all the pieces of the puzzle are important whether great or small, the flap of a butterfly wing affects all."
-Shireen Violett — Shireen Violett

I'm not doing anything that is going to destroy my. Stillm there is something quiet left behind. Like sediment in a bottle of wine. — Haruki Murakami

All the discussion in the meeting that day had centered on the impacts to humans. That would be the usual way of most such discussions; but whole biomes, whole ecologies would be altered, perhaps devastated. That was what they were saying, really, when they talked about the impact on humans: they would lose the support of the domesticated part of nature. Everything would become an exotic; everything would have to go feral. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms. — Ian McKellen

Jake, think of the population of this planet for one moment; we live for money, we fight for land then divide the land up and establish different currencies represented by different flags. The governments chosen to lead us are rife with corruption and at any given time one will be at war with another. And despite knowing that we are damaging the very environment that sustains us, we continue to pollute our skies and oceans. — Vincent Amato

If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly. — Steve Maraboli

One of you, two of them. Love's a bitch. — Andrea Cremer

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably. — Helena Christensen

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life. — Mika.