Koufopoulos N Quotes & Sayings

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood. — Paul Caponigro

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. — Lester Bangs

The term "musalman" refers to someone with "musallam iman", that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian. — Abhijit Naskar

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. — Ron Fournier

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.
Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity. — Christopher Fowler

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. — Vivienne Westwood

Great courage will be required to choose the right. — Ulisses Soares

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. — C.S. Lewis

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism . — Christopher Hitchens

The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important aspects of the phenomenon we call Puritanism. Very simply, it is a great example of our collective eagerness to disparage without knowledge or information about the thing disparaged, when the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved. And it demonstrates how effectively such consensus can close off a subject from inquiry ... Unauthorized views are in effect punished by incomprehension, not intentionally and not to anyone's benefit, but simply as a consequence of a hypertrophic instinct for consensus. — Marilynne Robinson

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. — Jean M. Auel