Top 1197 Rage From The Iliad Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

I have to be honest: I feel like I live in a constant state of rage, and I think a lot of black people do.

My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

I get really bad road rage, and if my daughter is in the car I have to bite my lip and try not to swear.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.

Haryanvi songs are a rage in Bollywood, and some talented singers hail from Rohtak, Kurukshetra etc.

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

There are so many people in Memphis who have real reasons to be angsty, but I was just a suburban white kid with all this misplaced rage.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath

The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.