Alexander Quotes
227 Alexander quotes by 157 unique authors
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When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand…
— Henry Hazlitt
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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a…
— Richard Kadrey
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These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man…
— Steven Pressfield
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Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from…
— Paullina Simons
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Raven: "You don't have a hot date, do you?" Alexander: "Yes. I do, as a matter of fact." Raven: "You do?" Alexander: "Yes, and it…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Raven: "Don't you notice that?" Alexander: "Notice what?" Raven: "The girls?" Alexander: "What girls?" Raven: "Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Green-eyed monsters,” said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little…
— Paullina Simons
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Commitment. That's what it's all about. Taking that convenant together. Bonding yourselves for all eternity. Isn't that what we are all looking for? Maybe Alexander…
— Ellen Schreiber
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....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.
— Paullina Simons
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Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury you. I already buried everyone else." "How can I die," Alexander said, his voice…
— Paullina Simons
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar,…
— Orson Scott Card
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At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or…
— Mary Renault
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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by…
— Walter Isaacson
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Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for?…
— Paullina Simons
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Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.
— Paullina Simons
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Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing…
— Paullina Simons
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never…
— Fannie Flagg
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Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth.…
— Ellen Schreiber
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(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.
— Ellen Schreiber
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It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the…
— Pittacus Lore
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of…
— William L. Shirer
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Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands,…
— Paullina Simons
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Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking…
— Paullina Simons
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