Hector Quotes

• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

  Homer

  Memories, Father, Grief

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• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  Hector Berlioz

  Good Luck, Talent, Enough

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• Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

  François Lelord

  Thinking, People, More Money

  François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.78, Gallic Books

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• Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

  François Lelord

  Knowing, Stories, Sometimes

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.189, Gallic Books

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Happiness often comes when least expected.

  François Lelord

  Searching For Happiness, Expected

  François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.42, Gallic Books

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• Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

  François Lelord

  Searching For Happiness, Spoil, Comparison

  François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.104, Gallic Books

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• Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

  François Lelord

  Caring, Lessons, Searching For Happiness

  François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.90, Gallic Books

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• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  Hector Berlioz

  Writing, Ideas, Despair

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

  Hector Berlioz

  Humility, Pride, Modesty

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• Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

  Hector Berlioz

  Love, Music, Ideas

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• The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

  Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

  Pittacus Lore

  Humility, And Love, Four

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• I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

  Richard Briers

  Love, Character, Laughing

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Dream, Eagles

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• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

  Homer

  Military, War, Fall

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• Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.” - at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Couple, Book

  Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Sharie Kohler (2011). “Origins: First Books of Three Paranormal Bestsellers: Cole, Showalter, Kohler: A Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly, Marked by Moonlight, with excerpts from their three latest novels!”, p.1416, Simon and Schuster

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• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Fire, Light

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name

  Pittacus Lore

  Sea, Names, Care

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• I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.]
  [Lat., Laetus sum
  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Father, Men, Praise

  "Tusculan Disputations", IV. 31, 67, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 624-25,

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• I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Littles, Might

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Drama, Moving, Epic

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Song, Plato, Struggle

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