Marathon Nation Quotes & Sayings

Don't you think it's a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court? — Lish McBride

The Persian Version
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaisance in force
By three brigades of foot and one of horse
(Their left flank covered by some obsolete
Light craft detached from the main Persian fleet)
But as a grandiose, ill-starred attempt
To conquer Greece - they treat it with contempt;
And only incidentally refute
Major Greek claims, by stressing what repute
The Persian monarch and the Persian nation
Won by this salutary demonstration:
Despite a strong defence and adverse weather
All arms combined magnificently together. — Robert Graves

The ground under their feet rolled violently as if a giant snake was pushing through. — A.O. Peart

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus. — Aristotle.

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that. — John Burnside

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born. — Ricky Gervais

To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. — Brian Christian

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day. — James McAvoy

It got to be an American custom, like talk shows, Face the Nation, marriage counseling, marathon encounters, or zoning hearings. — Tom Wolfe

He paused and manufactured a chuckle. — Carl Hiaasen

You're strong enough to bear anything, Elli. That's why the stars chose you. — Sarah Fine

The safe thing always is to run. To just assume you're too fucked up to do anything that remotely resembles normal. The good wife. The doting father. The safe thing to do is to be satisfied with being abnormal. To accept being fucked up. And to be alone in your abnormality and fucked-uppedness. To know that you are bad and alone and there's no fixing it or even wanting to. To not do the work. — Stacey May Fowles

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. — Pete Du Pont

People leave managers, not companies — Marcus Buckingham

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end. — Marcus Brigstocke

In every countrey the sun rises in the morning.
[In every country the sun rises in the morning.] — George Herbert

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself.
All men need the gods ... — Homer