Koulourakia Portokaliou Quotes & Sayings

She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say. — Alice Sebold

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it. — Michael DeLong

You need a companion for your thought process, than a physical relationship. — Rajasaraswathii

He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never really owned. He had no emails from ten years ago but still owned every book he bought that year. Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark - fancy, modest, scrap paper, candy wrapper - moved through the width of it, marking your progress, a little further each time you folded it shut. — Patrick Ness

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge. — Laozi

The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes out shooting. This is repeated several times. Finally, the vanquished party runs out of ammunition and is forced to surrender ' but seriously this time ' at which point the victors kill the foreigners and hug their fellow Afghans like long-lost brothers. — Ann Coulter

I met Betty on the street.
"I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."
"None of them are. — Charles Bukowski

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates. — Maria Cantwell

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Get a Brazilian wax. It makes sex better, orgasmwise. — Eva Longoria

The more we make the more we (think we) need, and the more we (think we) need means the more we must work and the more we must work means the more time we spend away from the home we're killing ourselves to pay for but it's a home we're never in except maybe on the weekends and then we're so exhausted we don't want to be bothered with the family we say we're providing a better life. — Kathy Y. Wilson

He could never imagine himself with anyone other than Maureen; they had shared so much. To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a fragile envelope of skin. — Anonymous

Gonna walk around and drink some more — Craig Finn

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation. — Hiam Abbass