Quotes About Alexander

Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn,   105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o'er my urn;

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

I stood there in the whirling summer,My hand capped a withered heart,And thought of China and of Greece,Of Alexander in his tent;Of Montaigne in his tower,Of Saint Theresa in her wild lament.

Annabeth nodded. That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took over. He wanted the Egyptians to accept him as their pharaoh, so he mashed the Egyptian gods and the Greek gods together and made up new ones. Sounds messy, Sadie said. I prefer my gods unmashed.

The Romance of Alexander.

To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Hegel already knew this danger of history, of the historical human being, when he said that every German gymnasium professor teaches that Alexander the Great conquered the world because he had a pathological love of power. And the proof that the teacher does not have a pathological love of power is that he has not conquered the world.

We leave our personal ideologies at the door... We only work for mainstream political parties.

I love doing children's TV. You get such extraordinarily positive feedback from your audience too.

Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

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 solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great once visited Diogenes as he was relaxing in the sun, and asked if there were anything he might do for him, the Cynic answered the all-powerful conqueror, 'Yes, there is something you can do for me. Please move a little to the side. You are blocking the sunlight.

Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great once visited Diogenes as he was relaxing in the sun, and asked if there were anything he might do for him, the Cynic answered the all-powerful conqueror, 'Yes, there is something you can do for me. Please move a little to the side. You are blocking the sunlight.' This

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.