Papanikolaou Quotes & Sayings

As I sit down in the chair closest to the entrance, my eyes scan the few people seated in the area. I'm quickly reminded of why I hate hospitals. They're always filled with heartbreak and worry over loved ones. — T.A. Kunz

Never live what you see. Never follow what you know. — Lissette E. Manning

Songs of myself
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe. — Walt Whitman

We are too small (compared to the universe), but capable of doing very big things" Stephen Hawking when studying in Cambridge. — Katerina Papanikolaou

Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return. — Sigrid Undset

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. — Salman Rushdie

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career. — Georgios Papanikolaou

Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realized that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good. — Edward Snowden

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. — Saadi

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed? — Garrett Camp

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. — Victor Hugo

Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound. — Clara Schumann

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts. — Mark Shand

I don't like that sort of school ... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged ... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines. — Charles Dickens

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever. — Rhys Ifans

If we think only of the great needs, then we are less likely to notice the individual small needs requiring our help. And all the great needs grow really out of little ones, or better, from the fact that in our blindness we in the beginning failed to see the little needs. — Dean G. Stroud