Olympus Quotes

• The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

  Homer

  Son, Dark, Curls

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.29

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Art, Morning, Paper

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• And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Strong, Men

  "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned". Book by Anne Rice, 1989.

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• The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Numbers, Reign, Eternal

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• Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Mean, Brave

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• People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

  Edna Ferber

  Self Confidence, People, Arrogance

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  Lactantius

  Names, Heaven, Mountain

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Path, Lost Hero

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• O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

  John Keats

  Vision, Hierarchy, Born

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.314

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• I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

  Rick Riordan

  Gone, Break, Rating

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

  William Winwood Reade

  God, Century, Nile

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.537

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• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

  Robert Bateman

  Cheer, Attitude, Moving

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• When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Spring, Stories

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
  [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

  Horace

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• Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dwarves, Somewhere Else, Giants

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• It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Artist, Common Folk, Earth

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• He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Agony, Boring

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.184, Macmillan

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• I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Justice, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Selfish, Hate, Heart

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• Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

  Rick Riordan

  Self Esteem, Hero, Long

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• Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

  Alexander Chee

  Greek, Abuse, Gods And Goddesses

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Thinking, Laughing

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• Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Believe, Names

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