Leroy Percy Quotes

It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

A man’s job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able—always remembering the results will be infinitesimal—and to attend to his own soul.

A man’s job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able—always remembering the results will be infinitesimal—and to attend to his own soul. —LEROY PERCY

I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us! But no such luck.

Where did the terror come from? Not from the violence; violence gives release from terror. Not from Leroy’s wrongness, for if he were altogether wrong, an evil man, the matter would be simple and no cause for terror. No, it came from Leroy’s goodness, that he is a decent, sweet-natured man who would help you if you needed help, go out of his way and bind up a stranger’s wounds. No, the terror comes from the goodness and what lies beneath, some fault in the soul’s terrain so deep that all is well on top, evil grins like good, but something shears and tears deep down and the very ground stirs beneath one’s feet.

was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us! But no such luck. He simply nodded

It’s him,” I said. “Typhon.” I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us!

El deber de un hombre es hacer un mundo mejor en la medida de sus posibilidades (sin olvidar nunca que los resultados serán infinitesimales) y hacerse cargo de su espíritu. LEROY PERCY

It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

This broke and Leroy got killed. 1999.

No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us! But no such luck. He simply nodded. “The most horrible monster of all, the biggest single threat the gods ever faced. He has been freed from under the mountain at last.

In 1910, Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi and Representative John L. Burnett of Alabama signed the majority report of the Immigration Commission that recommended the literacy test.20 Having been defeated by a presidential veto in 1897, when the literacy test came up for debate in Congress again in 1913, the proposal received limited southern opposition; only two southern senators dissented, and the southern representatives in the House voted to support the bill sixty-eight to five.