Pheidippides And The Battle Quotes & Sayings

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never sought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance suppose
The selfsame power that brought me there brought you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. — John Gray

Only you can be you. God designed each of us so there would be no duplication in the world. No one has the exact same mix of factors that make you unique. That means no one else on earth will ever be able to play the role God planned for you. If you don't make your unique contribution to the Body of Christ, it won't be made. — Rick Warren

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love. — Thomas Paine

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets. — Carrie Fisher

Being
infected, being a vampire, it' s always you. Maybe it' s more you than ever before. It' s you as you
always were, deep down inside. — Holly Black

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. — Barack Obama

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions. — J.G. Ballard

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar. — Robert H. Jackson

As most students of antiquity know, the modern marathon takes its name from the name of a famous battle that the Athenians won over the Persians in 490 B.C. Pheidippides, a Greek soldier and champion runner, volunteered to run the 25 miles from Marathon to Athens to spread the news of the victory. Upon arriving, Pheidippides is reported to have gasped "Rejoice, we conquer!" and then promptly died on the spot. — Pieter Peereboom

Do you want to be with someone who loves you for something that isn't really you?
- Jane — Eileen Cook

'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life. — Mark Leyner

but now we see that the subject controls the time of its environment. While we said before, "There can be no living subject without time," now we shall have to say, "Without a living subject, there can be no time. — Jakob Johann Von Uexkull

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit. — Agatha Christie

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden. — Milan Kundera