Prousalis Papantonakis Quotes & Sayings

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us. — Wu Wei

Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitudes. I have nowhere to flee to, unless I were to flee myself. — Fernando Pessoa

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone. — Erich Segal

Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death. — Sarada Devi

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. — Elizabeth I

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions. — Debasish Mridha

A death-bed's a detector of the heart. — Edward Young

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery. — Linda Colley

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you — Freya Stark

There is a tide in the affairs of men — William Shakespeare

when the shit was heading fanwards. — Ian Rankin

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity. — Catherine DeVrye

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be. — Frantz Fanon