Mattheos Mattheou Quotes & Sayings

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. — David R. Brower

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements. — Richard Rhodes

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them. — Swami Vivekananda

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig. — Judy Sheindlin

Speak only if it improves upon the silence. — Mahatma Gandhi

My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me. — Mike Huckabee

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make. — Eoin Colfer

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. — M. Scott Peck

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo. — Alicia Silverstone

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain. — Katherine Waterston

My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up. — Tove Ditlevsen

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. — Douglas Adams