Perseus Quotes

• I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

  Sam Worthington

  Hero, Believe, Literature

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• Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

  Karl Marx

  Believe, Eye, Magic

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.454, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

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• I was five steps away when he called, "Perseus." I turned. There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. "You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Pride, Son

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Father, Son

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• THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Hero, Optimistic

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• And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

  Justin Martyr

  Common, Accepting, Born

  Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, What If, Calypso

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• Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

  Paullina Simons

  Wind, Sky, Names

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• When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!

  Godfrey Higgins

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Godfrey Higgins (1836). “Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions”, p.439

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• If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Boys, People

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

  Oliver Stone

  Hero, Men, Greek

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• Perseus, you are not the hero.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero

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• Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.

  Theresa Villiers

  Book, Men, Views

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