Hellenic American Quotes & Sayings

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. — Henry Adams

I try to avoid giving advice. — Scott Adams

frittering our money away on extravagant trips — St. John Greene

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence. — Herman E. Daly

I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did. — Dean Koontz

The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment"
that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound division between it an ourselves. We have given up the understanding
dropped it out of our language and so out of our thought
that we and our country create one another, depend on one another, are literally part of one another; that our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land; that as we and our land are part of one another, so all who are living as neighbors here, human and plant and animal, are part of one another, and so cannot possibly flourish alone; that, therefore, our culture must be our response to our place, our culture and our place are images of each other and inseparable from each other, and so neither can be better than they other. — Wendell Berry

Preacher: "This is the word of God!"
Constantine: "The edited word of God — Garth Ennis

Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy. — Bernard Malamud

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me. — Ben Marcus

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything. — Kevin Ashton

The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you. — Stephen King

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry

A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I'm torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again. — Christine Fonseca

I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday. — Leon Charney