Ellinika Quotes & Sayings

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there. — Edith Wharton

But things coming out of her, visible to the world? It was in a strange way another loss. You gave things away you couldn't afford to lose. Private things. You showed yourself and you couldn't take it back. — Janet Fitch

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. — Maurice Maeterlinck

There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation. — Francois Hollande

Non-attachment grounded in faith allows good to return to you. — Julieanne O'Connor

There is always some cheap pleasant thing to tempt you. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

New problems: Mrs. Van Daan is desperate, talks about a bullet through her head, prison, hanging, and suicide. She's jealous that Peter confides in me and not her. — Anne Frank

That's the thing about my father. You never know when he's hiding a giant surprise giraffe head from you. — Jenny Lawson

Our food industry ignores health and our health industry ignores food. Studies have shown that diet is the most effective medicine. Studies have also shown that prescription drugs are terrible for your body. The majority of people seem to have no knowledge of the things that make humans healthy, and many people also show a huge lack of interest in maintaining their health. — Joseph P. Kauffman

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those of kind and quantity, the security sought is still the security of numbers, and the chief motive is still the consumer's anxiety that he is missing out on what is "in." In this state of total consumerism - which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves - all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand. — Wendell Berry