Kriton Papavasiliou Quotes & Sayings

The three things that shorten your life are smoking, artificial sweetener, and violent images. — Amy Poehler

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences. — Dana Spiotta

How do you teach "work hard, be independent, learn the meaning of money" to children who look around themselves and realize that they never have to work hard, be independent, or learn the meaning of money? That's why so many cultures around the world have a proverb to describe the difficulty of raising children in an atmosphere of wealth. In English, the saying is "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." The Italians say, "Dalle stelle alle stalle" ("from stars to stables"). In Spain it's "Quien no lo tiene, lo hance; y quien no lo tiene, lo deshance" ("he who doesn't have it, does it, and he who has it, misuses it"). Wealth contains the seeds of its own destruction. — Malcolm Gladwell

Murder will out, this my conclusion. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Or recite this mantra: om mani padme hum (pronounced "om mani padmay hum"). — Dalai Lama XIV

Gus, its never too late for redemption. The scars never run too deep, so deep that God is not there."
"I should know this. I minister to scarred people everyday. It just feels impossible when the scars are your own, or are those of the person you wronged so fully"
"It feels different when its you"
"Why is it the good you do seems like a drop in the bucket but the evil spreads for miles & miles — Lisa Samson

Sometimes film kills the room to dream. — David Lynch

But from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home. — Stacy Schiff