Iliad Achilles Strength Quotes & Sayings

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. — Alice Fulton

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a — Tim Harford

It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full — Thomas Bernhard

At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends. — Charles Darwin

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.' — Serena Williams

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why? — Ingmar Bergman

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. — Elfriede Jelinek

Rowan was watching Chaol as if he might be dinner. — Sarah J. Maas

Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude! — Mike Nichols

I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall. — Emil M. Cioran

She's alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I'm going to need a map to find her. — Tanya Watt

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk. — Arnold Palmer

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure. — Ethan Hawke

through and took the — Claire Svendsen