Lakiotis Greece Quotes & Sayings

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever. — David E. Goldberg

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry. — Vicki Baum

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink. — Frank Lowy

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body. — Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects. — Neill Blomkamp

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other ... get things done as a family. — John Boehner

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring? — Colson Whitehead

That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. I'm scared, too. For eighteen months now, I've lived in terror, fearing everything and everyone. I don't want to be scared anymore. The only time I've ever felt safe is in your arms. I love you, and I just want to let you in all the way. So please. Please fill me with love, because I can't bear to be filled with fear anymore. It's suffocating me. — Devon Ashley