Diamantopoulos Christos Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. — Edmund Hillary

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain. — Tertullian

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away. — Jeanette Winterson

The national characteristics ... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro. — Lawrence Durrell

Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around. — Bear Grylls

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks. — Craig Brown

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. — Philip Pullman

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. — Jerry Stahl

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one — Ray Mears

It was the red vision of the revolution, which would one day inevitably carry them all away, on some bloody evening at the end of the century. Yes, some evening the people, unbridled at last, would thus gallop along the roads, making the blood of the middle class flow, parading severed heads and sprinkling gold from disembowelled coffers. The women would yell, the men would have those wolf-like jaws open to bite. Yes, the same rags, the same thunder of great sabots, the same terrible troop, with dirty skins and tainted breath, sweeping away the old world beneath an overflowing flood of barbarians. — Emile Zola

If you're worried I have some devious secret
plan to seduce you, you can just pull my plug
out. — Jojo Moyes

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her. — William Shakespeare

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor. — Josh Brolin

I don't know who moves first, but suddenly we're kissing, like we've never kissed before. it's desperate. No tenderness. This is hard, starved-for-each-other kissing. — Samantha Towle