Cavafy Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match. — Samantha Stosur

The worst curse in life is unlimited potential. — Ken Brett

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool. — George Brett

There's always some further action to take. — Pierre Boulle

She would have her ship and he would have his city. — Leigh Bardugo

Trust your creativity. — Jeanette Winterson

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. — Northrop Frye

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you have a definite purpose of life, the universe will reveal the path to attainment. — Debasish Mridha

If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it
unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat. — Rick Riordan

That is why I speak of the gospels as telling the story of the launching of God's renewed people. It is wrong to imagine that the gospels (or Jesus, for that matter) were concerned with "founding the church," which is the way some people have said it. There already was a "people of God." We saw, with the first speaker, that the gospels were telling the story of Jesus as the climax of that people's story. Jesus came, they indicate, to rescue and renew that people, not to destroy it and replace it with something else. Israel is to be fulfilled, not replaced. (There — N. T. Wright

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. — Sarah Dessen

Oblonsky's tendency and opinions were not his by deliberate choice: they came of themselves, just as he did not choose the fashion of his hats or coats but wore those of the current style. Living in a certain social set, and having a desire, such as generally develops with maturity, for some kind of mental activity, he was obliged to hold views, just as he was obliged to have a hat. If he — Leo Tolstoy