Iliad Hector Quotes & Sayings

There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King. — Johnny Carson

And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. — Homer

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next. — Rebecca Rasmussen

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds. — Kay Granger

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? — Umberto Eco

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. — John Casey

When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash. — Bruce Berkowitz

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Satisfaction is a powerful sleep aid, and after the day I had yesterday, how could I not be content? Uncertainty has returned to my life, and I welcome the possibilities. — Doug Cooper

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

We get so many societal messages about what the Right Dream is that it gets hard to decipher what our own dream is. — Danielle LaPorte

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars ... — Oswald Spengler