Mouratidis Fanis Quotes & Sayings

The reason I couldn't talk to you was because I felt so bad for not talking to you. — David Levithan

We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say. — Gene Luen Yang

The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace. — David Brooks

For, after all, what is man in nature? ... a middle point between all and nothing ... What else can he do, then, but perceive some semblance of the middle of things, eternally hopeless of knowing either their principles or their end? All things have come out of nothingness and are carried onwards to infinity. Who can follow these astonishing processes? The author of these wonders understands them: no one else can. — Blaise Pascal

If I interview people, I would get to know many lives and experiences that I haven't been through myself. — Choi Minho

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. — John Mihaljevic

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. — Isabel Allende

I'm not writing a book of Western history,' I tell him. 'I've written enough history books to know this isn't one. I'm writing about something else. A marriage, I guess. Deadwood was just a blank space in the marriage. Why waste time on it?'
Rodman is surprised. So am I, actually - I have never formulated precisely what it is I have been doing, but the minute I say it I know I have said it right. What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where I knew them. That's where the interest is. That's where the meaning will be if I find any. — Wallace Stegner

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth. — William Hazlitt