Sfakianos Sinai Quotes & Sayings

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
And died in baseness-and their law is dust. — Al-Ma'arri

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music ... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating ... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest. — Tony Robbins

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know. — Russell Banks

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. — Kim Alexis

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. — Kenneth Williams

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus — Adolf Hitler

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. — Alfred Molina

There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former tell us what happened, while literature tells us what happens. The example of the Bible, which is central to any attempt to formulate a Christian approach to literature, sanctions the imagination as a valid form of truth. The Bible is in large part a work of imagination. Its most customary way of expressing truth is not the sermon or the theological outline, but the story, the poem, and the vision
all of them literary forms and products of the imagination (though not necessarily the fictional imagination). Literary conventions are present in the Bible from start to finish, even in the most historically factual parts. — Leland Ryken

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower. — June Hunt

It's not just about what's there, but what isn't . — Amy Harmon

Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life. — Doug Stanhope

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even ... knowledge, was foolproof. — J.K. Rowling

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton. — George III

You've been a thief of nuts. No wonder you turned into one." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist. — Randy Kamen