Alekos Alexandrakis Quotes & Sayings

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? — Gwyneth Paltrow

In a brahmin house
where they feed the fire
as a god

when the fire goes wild
and burns the house

they splash on it
the water of the gutter
and the dust of the street,

beat their breasts
and call the crowd.

These men then forget their worship
and scold their fire,
O lord of the meeting rivers! — Basava

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed? — Stephen Covey

When you have God behind you, you can come out on top every time. — Alvin C. York

She had thought because he loved her body that he cherished it. But now she saw that he took her body to be a dream of his own. It gave him pleasure, it gave him work, it gave him comfort, and profit. It was even more completely his body than his own, since if he needed to, he could discard it. Nothing she had imagined about who she was to him was true. At that moment, she became his widow. — Patricia Storace

I'm going to work with the Senate and the House to make sure we have a bill that lowers tuition for all Floridians. — Rick Scott

The understanding of our time should become our desire and aspiration — Sunday Adelaja

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government. — Dalton McGuinty

I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. A woman whose mouth I wanted to tape shut ... every bit as much as I wanted to kiss it. — Christina Lauren

Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become. — Lionel Shriver

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others. — Mencius

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it's like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don't want to. — Coco J. Ginger

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. — Judy Blume

They stayed for rapt moments in the crystal sphere of this soul, as if in a realm of invisible radiation, listening to unearthly music, and then returned to their daily lives with hearts cleansed and strengthened, as if descending from a high mountain peak. — Hermann Hesse

A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all - it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie