He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
