Odysseas Quotes & Sayings

Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis

The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished. — Odysseas Elytis

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us. — Odysseas Elytis

Bliss is not subtractbale. — Odysseas Elytis

Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time. — J.R. Ward

No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise.... — Kenneth L. Fisher

You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs. — Laini Taylor

The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded. — Corinne Heline

A plan is a thing that goes unsaid, but puts the hope in your voice nonetheless. — David Levithan

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does. — Jessica Zafra

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. — P. J. O'Rourke

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles. — Martin Lawrence

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. — Odysseas Elytis

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height. — Tom Brokaw

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face. — Eric Holder

How could you bear to refuse it?" Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley's hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven's hand. "My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering," Seven replied. — Kirsten Beyer

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further. — Kip Winger

Nothing worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde