Parisis Vasilis Quotes & Sayings

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. — C.S. Lewis

Practice, the master of all things. — Augustus

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. — Yotam Ottolenghi

My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it. — Nathaniel Rateliff

Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you're killed by a knife in the back or a bullet? — Yoon Ha Lee

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers. — Dani Shapiro

It is more than enough to be ethically and evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a bad moon on the rise. — John Fogerty

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. — Tammy Baldwin

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. — Melissa Bank

if religious people are going to be blamed for all the intolerance, then non-religious people simply have no right to be intolerant themselves. — Tom Hilpert

Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King's mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting one day and had hastily tied up her curls with her garter. The King had admired the effect, and the next day all the court ladies had appeared with their curls tied back with lace — Kate Forsyth

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something! — Dan Miller

I am at the gates of my own destruction.

(Or so I'm told.) — Beth Morey

These early, single-celled organisms unwittingly transformed Earth's carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into one with sufficient oxygen to allow aerobic organisms to emerge and dominate the oceans and land. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson