“Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC) line 722
Alternate translation : Ares hates the sluggard most of all. (translated by David Kovacs)
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1282–1283
“Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC) line 722
Alternate translation : Ares hates the sluggard most of all. (translated by David Kovacs)
“Huh," said Percy. "Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman.”
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Variant: Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman
Source: The Mark of Athena
Robert Cormier book The Rag and Bone Shop
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 98
Leo Tolstoy book What Men Live By
Source: What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
Context: And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but from heaven above. And the angel said:
I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love.
It was not given to the mother to know what her children needed for their life. Nor was it given to the rich man to know what he himself needed. Nor is it given to any man to know whether, when evening comes, he will need boots for his body or slippers for his corpse.
I remained alive when I was a man, not by care of myself, but because love was present in a passer-by, and because he and his wife pitied and loved me. The orphans remained alive, not because of their mother's care, but because there was love in the heart of a woman a stranger to them, who pitied and loved them. And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that.
I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all.
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
“It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Transcript of telephone conversation with poet and anti-war activist Allen Ginsberg from the National Security Archive http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB263/19710423-1950-Ginsberg-FIX.pdf (23 April 1971) <br class="br">1970s
“Ars sana in corpore sano. (Healthy art in a healthy body.)”
Genco Gulan (1969) contemporary artist
Gulan, Genco. (2016) https://twitter.com/gencogulan/status/746279774503505920 Retrieved 2016-06-24.
“take a look at my body
look at my hands
there's so much here
that I don't understand”
Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, Ophelia (1998), My Skin
“It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
Source: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse