Phaeacians Odyssey Quotes & Sayings

During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.
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For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us! — Milan Kundera

The public doesn't want new music. — Arthur Honegger

Sick while traveling
dream of a withered field
wandering around — Matsuo Basho

Dazzled by the luminosity of logic, she leans back, closing her eyes. She loses herself, she is lost. — Joseph Roth

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. — Jayce O'Neal

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future. — Jim George

Let me show you what life is like lived in the moment. No past, no future, just the one perfect moment you're standing in and there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of ... — Tiffany Reisz

A soap bubble is as real as a fossil tooth. — Vladimir Nabokov

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. — Bruce Springsteen

His overt wildness should have deterred her interest, but it had the opposite effect. She wanted something. To know him. To have some claim to him. — Harper St. George

You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Andrea: " ... I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle."
Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix."
Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that. — Ilona Andrews