Ifigeneia Mavridou Quotes & Sayings

Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. Then they said to him, What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?; for the sea was growing more tempestuous. And he said to them, Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me." (Jonah 1:10-12) Jonah — Val Waldeck

Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away. — Tony Bishop

I think the messages are very positive. You know, "Make America great again" is a very positive message. It's not a negative message. — Donald Trump

The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian. — Margaret Atwood

Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves. — F. Sionil Jose

Hire slowly and fire fast. — Ronnie Apteker

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS. — Richard Engel

You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn't. You say it's better to die on your feet. I say it's better to live on our knees. — Pierce Brown

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives ... — James Salter

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter ... The main thing is to keep people from bothering you ... The rest is eyewash ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray. — Alistair Cooke

In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long. — Andrew Klavan

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. — Prince Charles