Perseus Edith Hamilton Quotes & Sayings

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored. — Laozi

[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition. — Joan Wickersham

I'm not a homophobic. — Carl Paladino

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in. — April Gornik

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important. — Peter Hoeg

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. — Dante Alighieri

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. — Patricia Cornwell

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit. — Kathryn Prescott

In the lowest of lows you can learn the highest of highs, and that often when you get to the point of wanting to die, it's because you already have and are truly aching to live. — Jackie Haze

Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks inside that count. — Sarah Pinborough