Adamantidis Stin Quotes & Sayings

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values. — Lysander Spooner

The medal from an old grappling tournament will not serve me today, but the courage I developed in its acquisition will. By investing in yourself, by using all endeavors as a vehicle to shape who we are, we exist in the present moment with a lifetime of growth behind us. I have loved many vehicles throughout the years, Jiu Jitsu more than any other, but the vehicle has, and always will, be a distant second to the driver. — Chris Matakas

It is impossible for us to see as God sees because we look at our circumstances which are like an enveloping cloud that surrounds us, preventing us from seeing outside them. There's a vast difference between being on the ground when a thundercloud is over head and being in a jet plane above the storm. What a different viewpoint you get when you are looking down on it from when you are looking up at it. — J. Dwight Pentecost

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? — Margot Fonteyn

It's better to be poor but rich in love than rich but poor in love. — Debasish Mridha

If nothing is holy, nothing is profane. — Dennis Prager

If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too. — Frederick Corder

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. — Ilya Yashin

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character . — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. — Herman Kahn

Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding. — Niklas Zennstrom