Mavroulas Quotes & Sayings

Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important. — Arthur C. Clarke

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there — Brian Crozier

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. — George Orwell

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels. — Sebastian Bach

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid. — Spencer Grammer

We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it. — Sam Owen

When the quarrel had finally worn itself out they had found themselves at opposite ends of the earth, though lying side by side in the same bed. — O.E. Rolvaag

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask. — Paul Halmos

Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe. — Foundation For Inner Peace

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. — Mason Cooley