Odysseus Athena Quotes & Sayings

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around. — Eliot Coleman

Practically overnight the budgets of federal law enforcement agencies soared. Between 1980 and 1984, FBI antidrug funding increased from $8 million to $95 million.73 Department of Defense antidrug allocations increased from $33 million in 1981 to $1,042 million in 1991. During that same period, DEA antidrug spending grew from $86 to $1,026 million, and FBI antidrug allocations grew from $38 to $181 million.74 By contrast, funding for agencies responsible for drug treatment, prevention, and education was dramatically reduced. The budget of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for example, was reduced from $274 million to $57 million from 1981 to 1984, and antidrug funds allocated to the Department of Education were cut from $14 million to $3 million.75 — Michelle Alexander

White bones, dry veins, and melted skin. Holy hell. Who writes shit like that? — Fiona Quinn

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. — Bill O'Reilly

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for. — Joan Bennett Kennedy

She wasn't born in the normal way. She was literally born from
thoughts. Her children are born the same way. When Athena falls in love with a mortal man, it's purely intellectual, the way she loved Odysseus in the old stories. It's a meeting of minds. She would tell you that's the purest kind of love. — Rick Riordan

He was standing so close to her, all six feet plus inches of masculine strength. So solid and safe. Her valiant protector. It seemed only natural to seek the safe enclosure of his embrace. She ran into his arms, burying her head against the hard wall of his chest. He smelled ... wonderful. Warm. Of leather and pine needles and strength. Savoring the distinctly masculine scents, she closed her eyes. Only then did the tears start to fall. — Monica McCarty

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope

Time is the fire in which we burn. - Delmore Schwartz — Connie Willis

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination. — Robin Sloan

American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences ... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could.
If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot. — Kendare Blake

There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon. — Bud Grant