The Last Odyssey Quotes

“young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“seventeenth century, Pope Leo XIII”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“The old adage “necessity is the mother of all invention” remains as true today as it did back in 3500 B.C.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, by Adrienne Mayor”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Gray watched the hydrofoil settle crookedly into the water and pondered the old quote from Edmund Burke. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“It seemed history was destined to be repeatedly tested, to be balanced on the precipice of Armageddon over and over again. Sadly, all too often, it was an apocalypse of our own making. It took men like Hunayn—who fought against the darkness—to pull us back from that brink, who were willing to sacrifice all to this cause.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Welcome to the presence of the Kolossoi,” he said with a wave of an arm. “The Giants of Mont’e Prama.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Noro Stone,”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Then in the late nineteenth century, a German amateur archaeologist named Heinrich Schliemann dug into a large hill at the Turkish site of Hisarlik and exposed the ruins of a great city. It would take many years, but eventually this buried complex was indeed identified as the lost city of Troy. And just like”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“shuts”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Don’t be stupid.” “I think that’s what I’m best known for.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Only Kowalski voiced a dissent. “C’mon, guys. Does that really sound like a place we want to go?”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Trust it little. Fear it much. Man at sea is but a worm on a bit of wood, now engulfed, now scared to death. —AMRU BIN AL-’AS, THE ARAB CONQUEROR OF EGYPT, 640 A.D.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Cerebos, the three-headed guardian of Hell.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“The original Greek word was pithos, a sealed jar for storage. But in the sixteenth century, that word got bastardized into pyxis, which means ‘box,’ and it never got corrected.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Underland: A Deep Time Journey,”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“They believed the core of Christ’s teachings was to never stop looking for God in the world—and oneself.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“The Holy Scrinium was the private library of the popes, said to contain amazing volumes, both religious and otherwise, dating back to the founding of Christendom.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“βουλοίμην κ’ ἐπάρουρος ἐὼν θητευέμεν ἄλλῳ, ἀνδρὶ παρ’ ἀκλήρῳ, ᾧ μὴ βίοτος πολὺς εἴη, ἢ πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσειν. “I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.” —WORDS FROM THE GHOST OF ACHILLES IN HOMER’S ODYSSEY”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Maybe such brave souls were the world’s true messiahs. Maybe we didn’t need to wait idly by for heavenly salvation. Maybe we were always our best hope.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Agadir,”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“The Great Stagnation,”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo da Vinci, which both humanizes the man and offers insight into his genius (do read”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey

“One must be humble enough to recognize one’s limitations, to know when further knowledge is needed.”
― James Rollins, The Last Odyssey