FastSaying

The primary barrier to doing this would be the money.


Rick Alexander

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path...
THE PRIMARY CHRONICLE So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Live fully and without fear
RICK RIORDAN APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

"You are gorgeous and people love you!
RICK RIORDAN A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT That shows that if this were a primary, there would be a lot of opportunity to pick up votes. The id...
DON JOHNSTON We're trying to raise a lot of money for Easter Seals and the reason why we're doing it is when Rick...
DICK HOYT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT It's almost as if legislators are outsourcing one of their primary duties of drafting laws, and they...
JAY HECK Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
THEO DE RAADT The group's primary responsibility would be to attract new businesses to the area.
BERN EWERT In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Go...
PAULLINA SIMONS I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.
MATTHEW AID A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of t...
LARRY ELLISON What if Alexander Graham Bell's name were Alexander Graham Siren? The phone wouldn't ring, it would ...
GEORGE CARLIN Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting th...
CHARLES PLATT Without this trade barrier, China's information technology industry would have grown much faster.
LI HUI And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things—or anything—was love.
RICK YANCEY I am drowning in an infinite sea.
RICK YANCEY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The power never to allow money change your character is by having strong determination never to allo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power never to allow money corrupt your mind is by learning not to revere money above people.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Money makes the wise more humble,but an opportunity for the fool to exhibit all his pride.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE
HENNA SOHAIL Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big ch...
LARRY ELLISON I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned w...
BIBLE No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child...
RICK YANCEY In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Ac...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
BRUCE BAWER Bob says hello," he told the stars.
RICK RIORDAN Tyson put his hand on Grover´s shoulder "I -I will go with him."
I couldn´t believe I was hea...
RICK RIORDAN Money has never been my primary goal.
BRYAN CRANSTON Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY You can't make other people do "right." All you can do is "right" yourself, and sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE Don't ask more than someone's best, and don't give less than your best.
JIM GENOVESE In doing what is necessary you sometimes end up doing the impossible.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The primary beneficiaries of all this are Democratic women and that second place would go to Republi...
LARRY MAKINSON To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w...
RICK YANCEY Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN Your money is in what you know. Use it and be wealthy
SOTONYE ANGA Any incumbent, regardless of which party, would prefer there be a primary on the opposing side. Woul...
EVAN ZEPPOS I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credib...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT We were having a discussion about language barriers and how we could eliminate them. We decided that...
JAN BAILEY Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "T...
PAULLINA SIMONS This Buddha represents the meeting of East and West. When Alexander the Great invaded Eastern Asia h...
HIROKO KOYAMA That will certainly become a barrier. But the first step would be to get it past a free vote in the ...
BRUCE CLEMENGER Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT

More Rick Alexander

You don't have the problems of impacts on private property. You don't have the environmental impacts...
RICK ALEXANDER We have a surplus of money and would like to give it away.
RICK ALEXANDER You don't have the problems of impacts on private property. You don't have the environmental impacts...
RICK ALEXANDER Every person can help conserve water. It's easy, it helps the environment, and it usually saves mone...
RICK ALEXANDER I got burned here (on his hands), underneath my arm, both ears, around my neck and the top of my bac...
RICK ALEXANDER Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon...
RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ...
RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B...
RICK LARSEN I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Technically, even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers of the opposite sex to be...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the econo...
RICK SCOTT Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athen...
RICK RIORDAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…
“Okay,�...
RICK RIORDAN Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
RICK RIORDAN I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies l...
RICK RIORDAN Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies
RICK RIORDAN Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evi...
RICK RIORDAN I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in...
RICK RIORDAN Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drin...
RICK RIORDAN On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to...
RICK RIORDAN Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
RICK RIORDAN Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn...
RICK RIORDAN I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better busine...
RICK SCOTT The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK ALLEN If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost ...
RICK RENZI Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ra...
RICK PERLSTEIN Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
RICK YUNE I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
RICK PERLSTEIN Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
RICK RIORDAN We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
RICK MERCER Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ...
RICK PERLSTEIN Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN You can keep watch, in case – you know, the lake decides to attack us or something." - Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
RICK MOODY Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally emba...
RICK RIORDAN I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Wes...
RICK RIORDAN Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart.
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of lov...
RICK RIORDAN Headache!" Zeus bellowed. "Bad. bad headache!"
As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
RICK RIORDAN your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty ...
RICK RIORDAN Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. I...
RICK RIORDAN The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. ...
RICK RIORDAN People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't e...
RICK RIORDAN Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me thi...
RICK RIORDAN Athena called, "Annabeth Chase, my own daughter."
Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
RICK RIORDAN I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, ...
RICK RIORDAN She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly...
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
RICK RIORDAN The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
RICK RIORDAN You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
RICK RIORDAN I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
RICK RIORDAN And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo...
RICK RIORDAN Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

"It only works on wild animals....
RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."
Her...
RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv...
RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor...
RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa...
RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle.
RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<...
RICK RIORDAN Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
RICK RIORDAN You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
RICK RIORDAN Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
RICK RIORDAN The real world is where the monsters are.
RICK RIORDAN It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
RICK RIORDAN I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
RICK RIORDAN We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
RICK RIORDAN Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of h...
RICK RIORDAN The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human b...
RICK RIORDAN She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbre...
RICK RIORDAN Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”
“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”...
RICK RIORDAN Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
RICK RIORDAN She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a...
RICK RIORDAN Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
RICK RIORDAN Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so...
RICK RIORDAN Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of wha...
RICK RIORDAN Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we ...
RICK RIORDAN He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank...
RICK RIORDAN Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the ...
RICK RIORDAN Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in ...
RICK RIORDAN Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a ...
RICK RIORDAN Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
RICK RIORDAN Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decid...
RICK RIORDAN That's because we keep weapons in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time m...
RICK RIORDAN Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
RICK RIORDAN Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN