Samouilidis Quotes & Sayings

The problem was, of course, that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded of this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them and they would call that the right thing. — Alexander McCall Smith

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one. — Johan Huizinga

You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"A yes or no one. — Todd Morr

Canelo's a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they're going to be able to do the same thing, but that's not true. He's a strong fighter. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it. — Naomi Novik

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ. — Martin Luther

I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with some sad days?
Or are you sad with some happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on and on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra about stripes ... again. — Shel Silverstein

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God. — John Robert Seeley

You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day. — Joan Kirner

Till 24,
I always thought I am different and then I found out everyone is. — Bhavik Sarkhedi