Best 24 quotes in «medea quotes» category

death is the only water to wash away this dirt

Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.

What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)

A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime.

A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.

no man, is ever happy, no one.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

If you gain from a crime, you did it.

I just tried my powers and they didn't do shit for getting us out of here." Falcyn "Mine either, and I was hoping to keep you distracted so that you wouldn't beat my ass over this situation." Blaise What about you, Princess Pea? You got anything?" Falcyn "Besides a throbbing migraine? No. My teleportation isn't cooperating either." Urian "Really? If mine was working do you think I'd be here, listening to the lot of you? Promise, I'd have vanished long ago" Medea

My love for you was greater than my wisdom.

Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love.

No time is too short for criminals to do wrong.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Then she died.

The mind of a queen Is a thing to fear. A queen is used To giving commands, not obeying them; And her rage once roused is hard to appease.

The one who knows no hope knows no despair.

The stories abounded, both recounting these cross-continental journeys and perhaps inspiring them – how Hellenic Jason gathered his Argonauts together (including Augeas, whose vast stables Herakles would be forced to clean) for adventure and profit, how he stopped off along the Bosphorus and discovered the land of the rising sun before other Greek heroes headed to Asia in search of Helen, Troy and glory. In the Homeric epics we hear of Jason travelling east where he tangles with Medea of Colchis, her aunt Circe and the feisty Amazon tribe. Lured by the promise of gold (early and prodigious metalworking did indeed take place in the region – perhaps sparking the Greek idea that the East was ‘rich in gold’) and then detained by the potions and poisons of Princess Medea, Jason succeeded in penetrating the Caucasus – a land which, in the Greek mind, wept with both peril and promise. It was here that Prometheus was chained to a rock with iron rivets for daring to steal fire from the gods. Archaeology east of Istanbul demonstrates how myth grazes history.

Whatever you do, you have to avoid the SOD" Blaise "The dirt? Seriously? Why? What's it do?" Medea "Not sod. SOD. S-O-D Shadows of Doubt." Blaise

This is Amazing! Can I ride you?" Medea "You already did that" Falcyn

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness.

You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.

you will rise. and are you less of a woman for this? no what is woman? woman is this—enduring. listen girl, you will survive this–you will. but what fool said you had to do it silently? here is a tip—scream