Patroklos Alexander Quotes & Sayings

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading. — Caroline Alexander

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian. — Will Rogers

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it. — Alan Cohen

The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me. — Anna Bayes

But I know better than anyone that if he doesn't see that answer, it's because he doesn't want to. — Laurelin Paige

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled. — Alan Davies

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. — Mary Renault

For women born after 1949, the odds were that they would have sex before they reached age twenty.1 Despite the increase in the number of young people having sex in the 1950s and 1960s, access to birth control and sex education lagged far behind. Fearing that sex education would promote or encourage sexual relations, parents and schools thought it best to leave young people uninformed. During this time, effective birth control was difficult to obtain. — Ann Fessler

I betcha masturbate while reading your books. He started imitating a woman's voice. "Oh fuck me harder, Flabio, oh yes, oh no, but we shouldn't , you're too big and I'm a virgin, but oh, you fit so right, but we still mustn't, we're not married, but oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, YES! ~ Dante — Marita A. Hansen

You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?.. — Demetri Martin

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence. — Rajneesh

The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and too many crushed into cockroachy flats from hell, way too many loathing their lives in fluorescent cubicles, enduring for the weekend and then starting all over again, and we're fracturing under the weight of it. — Tana French

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond. — Tony Robbins