Plakias Rethymno Quotes & Sayings

We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. — Vince Cable

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims. — Jane Austen

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks. — Charlie Chaplin

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival. — Cary Fowler

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements ... the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe

Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood. — David W. Mack

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. — Mark Cane

The Lance Corporal [a junior enlisted rank] at the back of your platoon may not know every detail of your operation. He may not have read every piece of intelligence about your enemy, or every nuance of your larger strategy, but he'll always know one thing: he'll know whether or not you care about him. — Eric Greitens

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. — Maya Angelou

Magic and music are brother and sister," he replied as Starbrow picked his way through the fog. "The bard's craft has always been half magic; in times past minstrels and magicians were often one and the same. Perhaps it is because we must sing so frequently of the old days and the magic of them that we do — Patricia C. Wrede

because life is not stable except by faith. Let — John Calvin

The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language ... everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious. — Wilfred Owen