Loutsios Lerides Quotes & Sayings

Humanity lives in its fiction. — Blaise Cendrars

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. — David Bain

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth. — M T Anderson

Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you okay?"
Alec looked at him. "Who are you again?"
Magnus gave a little gasp; he looked - for the first time Simon could remember - actually unnerved. It lasted only a moment, but it was there. "Alexander," he said.
"Too soon to joke about the happy memory thing, I take it," Alec said. — Cassandra Clare

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever. — David Dudley Field II

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for. — Eric Hoffer

But we can't go back. We can only go forward. — Libba Bray

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. — Anthony Trollope

Boys dream of war. But men can dream of peace. — David Talbot

The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world. — Yukio Mishima

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt. — Aravind Adiga

Be with someone who is going to ruin your lipstick, not your mascara. So, suck it up, dry your tears, and say yes to the rest of your life. — Lily Paradis

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there? — Lindsay Hartley

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. — George Leonard

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves. — Peter Kreeft