Papadopoulou Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists. — Robert Greene

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. — Helen Dunmore

Your father doesn't give his devotion lightly or carelessly. When you are given a piece of someone like that, someone who doesn't naturally trust others, it's more special than when it comes from those who are capricious with their love. As with all things, the rarity make it all the more precious — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man. — George Stevens

When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays. — Jeffrey Rosen

A hunter doesn't mistake the feeling that demons are around. It moves down your spine and chills your bones. Feeling it proved I was indeed a hunter, even without an element. — M.R. Merrick

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong. — John Buchan

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there. — Douglas Adams

The Irish have played a part in every military conflict on American soil since the founding of the republic. Donegal-born Richard Montgomery was the first American general to lose his life in the Revolutionary War. In fact, one British major general at the time told the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army was from Ireland. — Rashers Tierney

I," he says, grazing his thumb over my mouth. "Will always need you. A male cannot exist apart from his heart." Neither — Ruby Dixon

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age. — Publilius Syrus

We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity. — Bryant McGill

Fasting is a medicine. — Saint John Chrysostom