Kalliopi Zontanou Quotes & Sayings

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. — Anne Lamott

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. — Michel De Montaigne

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to. — Geoff Mulgan

I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into my siege mentality, looking forward to pulling up the drawbridge and waiting out the rain. With luck, I wouldn't have to go out for days. — Sue Grafton

Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out. — Louise Penny

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. — Louise Gluck

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. — R.J. Palacio

The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. — William Blum

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches. — Michael Chang

She had been lonely, the kiss hadn't meant anything, and he was clearly regretting it. How many mistakes did that sentence encapsulate in the history of relationships? — Thea Harrison

I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles."
~ Ithana Aaronson — Jeanne Birdsall