Kouros Quotes & Sayings

Running is not just a sport but a biological necessity. — Yiannis Kouros

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique. — Kevin Conroy

When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner — Yiannis Kouros

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.- — Seneca The Younger

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides

Never fear to ask what you truly want. You will always get exactly what you desire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Colliding with the bright light
Of my true self,
My illusions scream loudly,
Themselves illusions
Created by other illusions,
Finally knowing that
Deep within me
Beneath the shell
Lies the sacred beauty
Of my true self. — Ilchi Lee

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny. — Michael Keaton

When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work. — Malcolm Gladwell

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides — Ed Ayres

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less. — Yiannis Kouros

It is as if I can see my body in front of me. — Yiannis Kouros

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance. — Yiannis Kouros

It is just awesome, there's no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car ... I'm just very proud of the moment. — Jimmie Johnson

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats. — Erin Moure

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired, — Yiannis Kouros

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. — Lucian

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self. — Paul Tillich

We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't. — Ron Rash

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that. — Charles Palliser

Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told. — Paul Simon