Battle Quote by B. W. Powe Download Open image “The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.” — B. W. Powe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Battle Routes Trade Trojan war Trojans War
“Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“..history is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Paris had heard of Helen of Sparta’s beauty, and though she was married to the warlike Menelaus, he immediately consented to awarding Aphrodite the apple. “Discord” was brought to the Mediterranean. 10 years later, the world was still feeling the effects of Aphrodite’s actions and Menelaus’s response. The Greeks and Trojans had been well matched, and the Greeks just could… — Charles River Editors Copy Share
The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
“But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could… — B. W. Powe Copy Share
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is,… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives -- in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
It's almost ironic sitting here watching stories about Norm's courageous 'battle' with cancer. He actually did a bit on stage about how stupid that… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
