Medea Quotes: top 37 famous quotes about Medea

Medea Quotes & Sayings

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People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children. — Rachel Caine

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government. — Medea Benjamin

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete. — Rupert Graves

No time is too short for criminals to do wrong. — Seneca.

The more pain you suffer from it strengthens you to be strong mentally — Martellis Thurmand

My love for you
was greater than my wisdom. — Euripides

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. — Euripides

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

no man,
is ever happy, no one. — Euripides

What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver? — Euripides

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. — Tammy Bruce

When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness. — Seneca.

The one who knows no hope knows no despair. — Seneca.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job. — Ernest Hemingway,

Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything. — Euripides

No one who goes against her can win. — Euripides

A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one. — Seneca.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech. — Medea Benjamin

Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love. — Seneca.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again. — Nora Roberts

Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must. — Michel Faber

If you gain from a crime, you did it. — Seneca.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands. — Om Puri

I associated excellence in writing with New York City. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Israel is run by war criminals. — Medea Benjamin

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler. — Medea Benjamin

A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime. — Seneca.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. — Barbra Streisand

Kingdoms which act unjustly never last. — Seneca.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt. — Gabriel Vahanian

The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease. — Euripides

The trials of the saint are a divine husbandry, by which he grows and brings forth abundant fruit. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth. — Eve Tushnet

Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment. — Brian McGreevy

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. — Robert Graves

death is the only water to wash away this dirt — Euripides