Quotes About Alexander

this would be no easy victory. "In truth, Alexander, you are so demanding these days that a saint would defy you, and do so simply for the pleasure of thwarting your schemes. You

of your bed as you slept. Sachs had brought Braden Alexander's clothing too. Cooper

the castle's rarely seen owner, Sean Killdaren and his brother, Alexander, the Viscount of Blackmoor—a man

No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

Alexander was given a reward, and he went on to become a great hunter of atheists and pagans.

Bien, Bourrienne; tú también serás inmortal. ¿Por qué, general Bonaparte? ¿No eres mi secretario? Dígame cómo se llamaba el de Alejandro. Mmm... no está mal, Bourrienne.

This acknowledging disposition in the governor made them all acknowledge, that he was truly "a man of an excellent spirit." In fine, the victories of an Alexander, an Hannibal, or a Caesar over other men, were not so glorious as the victories of this great man over himself, which also at last proved victories over other men.

At least I'm not reading a book by Alexander dumass.

Much later, the Seleucid Babylonians, who ruled over Mesopotamia as the successors of Alexander the Great, invented a symbol to replace this ambiguous 'gap' that the old Babylonians employed. Thus, the earliest known symbol for zero () is found on many Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets from around 300 BCE.

George Alexander, chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

In Greek mythology, Gordius was a peasant who became king of Phrygia. He tied an extremely complicated knot—the famous Gordian knot—that no one could untie. When Alexander learned that

This man on sixteen people's directories was named Alexander Gordius.

Oh. It's Fraser. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.

And if you care to hearThe "Swanee River"Played in ragtime,Come on and hear,Come on and hearAlexander's Ragtime Band.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

for, I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, and tried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it could be seen that smiling was what he would do best; he would not often be caught with his head back laughing. But he did look like a man who would answer questions.

There are always men who take their own measure against greatness, and hate it not for what it is, but for what they are. They can envy even the dead. So much Alexander saw. He did not understand, since it was not in him, the power such men have to rouse in others the sleeping envy they once had a decent shame of; to turn respect for excellence into hate. Nor did Kallisthenes understand it in himself. Vanity begets it, vanity covers it up.

and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.

Some would take nothing, like Perdiccas; whose inclusion suggests, in spite of Ptolemy, that he did the right thing at Thebes. "What are you keeping for yourself?" he asked. "Hope," said Alexander, to which Perdiccas' prophetic answer was, "That I'll share.