Athanasopoulos Nikolaos Quotes & Sayings

When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion. — Jed McKenna

It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment. — Ambrose Bierce

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence. — Dan Hill

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms — Kamila Shamsie

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves. — B. Alan Wallace

The hot, stagnant air, only marginally cooler without the sun's heat, draped us in its sticky blanket. — Bobby Adair

Real love comes with strings you tie yourself. — Abby Gaines

He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time. And Aunt Maria would say that she would not allow the children to stand round and hear such language. — Jerome K. Jerome

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it's the greatest exploration of the human imagination. — Daniel Radcliffe

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family. — Jo Beverley

Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, 'This isn't something you have when you're single, that's for sure.' — Rob Lowe