Odysseus Quotes
Collection of top 33 famous quotes about Odysseus
Odysseus Quotes & Sayings
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This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
— Odysseus Elytis
Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love's pre-eternal sadness.
— Odysseus Elytis
ODYSSEUS I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.
— Sophocles
Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus
— Julie Garwood
But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.
— Odysseus Elytis
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
— Andrew Mellon
I'll be Odysseus. You be Achilles." "Achilles dies in the end." "Then learn from his mistakes.
— Pierce Brown
I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword.
— Francesca Lia Block
Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.
— Maria Semple
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines ... or other new beginnings.
— Amby Burfoot
Would ride into fire. For Odysseus that whip was pride.
— David Gemmell
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
— John Maynard Keynes
The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
— Zig Ziglar
There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
Odysseus managed to return in secret and slaughter them all - your basic happy homecoming.
— Rick Riordan
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.
— Antonis Samaras
I like to begin where winds shake the first branch.
— Odysseus Elytis
Anyone who tries to keep all the people happy all the time will never fulfill their destiny.
— Joyce Meyer
Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.
— Sophie Kinsella
Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.
— Madeline Miller
mug before him. 'Here she is,' the landlady turned
— Kaye Dobbie
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife ...
— Homer
Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,
— Adam Nicolson