Aeschylus Quotes

Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Identity
  • Equality
  • Blow

• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Real
  • Truth

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Moral
  • Teaching
  • Act

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Up
  • Fly
  • Blow

• There are two organizations pushing for change in November - al Qaeda and the Democratic party. And they both have the same message: 'We're going to fix you, America.' On the whole, the terrorists have a more straightforward plan for fixing things. They're going to blow themselves up. Although, come to think of it, Howard Dean did that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • America
  • Party

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Desert

• Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Poetry
  • Wall
  • Wind

• Commute with me, my Love, and be merry;How vain in the City to dwellWhen apple-trees blow in Dobbs' FerryAnd lilacs adorn New Rochelle!White Plains is the Garden of AllahAnd Pelham's the Pearl of the Sea;There's bliss in the name of Valhalla -Oh, fly to the Suburbs with me!

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • City
  • Sea
  • Fly

• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Blow

• Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • World
  • Blow

• All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Police

• I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Character
  • Book
  • Style

• The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.

  

  E. W. Scripps
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• With the first 'Toy Story,' we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We'd never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Different
  • Movie

• The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Career

• Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Blow