Quotes About Cassandra

the others had hurriedly shoved all the supplies from the SUV into the Eurovan, then drove the SUV over a steep slope. Painter feared Cassandra would track them with its GPS feature, just as he had.

One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god.

Jeszcze jedno w kwestii Kasandry: niewiara, z jakÄ… spotykaÅ'y siÄ™ jej proroctwa, byÅ'a skutkiem klÄ…twy, którÄ… rzuciÅ' na niÄ… Apollo za to, ?e nie chciaÅ'a uprawia? z nim seksu. W tej historii od poczÄ…tku chodzi o to, ?e tracisz wiarygodno??, kiedy domagasz siÄ™ prawa do wÅ'asnego ciaÅ'a.

derived from Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess who was cursed by the god Apollo always to tell the truth and never to be believed.

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events.

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) – one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events. It was quite wearyingly relentless but the only way that one could go was forward. She

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Low levels of psychological safety can create a culture of silence. They can also create a Cassandra culture – an environment in which speaking up is belittled and warnings go unheeded.

It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.

Two books of essays also appeared – Essays in Persuasion (1931) and Essays in Biography (1933). The first collected what Keynes, in his introduction, called 'the croakings of twelve years – the croakings of a Cassandra who could never influence the course of events in time'. A notable feature of the second is Keynes's use of short lives of men of science to ponder and delineate the character of scientific genius.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Troy deserves her doom, then!" said Cassandra. "I leave it to you. I shall perish with you! But I see my end, whereas you are blind.

And you called me mad, time's martyr, a vagrant Cassandra corrupted by too long a vigil on this earth.

You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra's stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris)

I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra) Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)

Halt leaned forward and took Cassandra's hands. "You'd be placing her in the care of the greatest, most capable Ranger Araluen has ever known," he said quietly. He sensed the surprise among the others and looked up at them. "Oh, Will's better than I ever was," he said, smiling.

Ze zal Cassandra heten. - Abdis Margrit

"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

Now would be a good time to tell me you have your sais with you, Kat. (Cassandra) Nada. You got your kamas on you? (Kat) Yeah. I tucked them into my bra before I left home. (Cassandra)

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has only to read her novels to realize that she was nothing so bland. Her genius, her craft, and her timeless prose are no secret, but thanks to Cassandra's scissors, most other aspects of her life will probably remain a mystery.