Quotes & Sayings About The Trojan Horse In The Odyssey

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense. — Diana Gabaldon

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. — William L. McKnight

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman. — Jacki Weaver

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence. — Thomas Keating

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. — Jonathan Swift

She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes. — Douglas Wilson

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. — Don DeLillo

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. — Freeman Dyson

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. — Samuel Johnson

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read. — Walter Dean Myers

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. — Max Lerner

If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice guy. Gentle guy. Religious guy. Very caring + good to kids. But kids not fooled. Kids prefer dead dad (i.e., me) to religious guy. Pale, boring, religious guy, with no oomph, who wears weird sweaters and is always a little sad, due to, cannot get boner, due to physical ailment.
Ha ha.
Death very much on my mind tonight, future reader. Can it be true? That I will die? That Pam, kids will die? Is awful. Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
Note to self: try harder, in all things, to be better person. — George Saunders

But if i sit here and weep
I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze — Laura Marling

I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple! — Jimmy Wayne