Ithacas Poem Quotes & Sayings

Man's life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant. He is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas come to him involuntarily; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them; he is unceasingly modified by causes, whether visible or concealed, over which he has no control, which necessarily regulate his mode of existence, give the hue to his way of thinking, and determine his manner of acting. He is good or bad, happy or miserable, wise or foolish, reasonable or irrational, without his will being for any thing in these various states. — Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach

He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented. — Tony Vigorito

No-one ever built a statue of a critic. — David Nicholls

I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier. — Walter Munk

Thanks. Hey, before I go, how's the romance coming with that vampire, what's his name?" "Vlad? I staked him. He was going to cheat on me and break my heart." Sasha shrugged. "I broke his first." Never screw around with a psychic. Especially not murderous ones. — Eve Langlais

The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce. — David James Duncan

Get out of my dreams, get into my car. — Billy Ocean

He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am. — Gillian Flynn

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines. — Daniel Craig

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader. — John C. Maxwell

The unenvied man is not enviable. — Aeschylus