Sotiriadis Quotes & Sayings

A brick could be used to help defeat all incumbent politicians whose last name starts with Brj and anything after that alphabetically. Since people tend to vote for the first one on the ballot, Brick would not only benefit from the stupidity of the citizenry, but the people would benefit by electing the smarter of the two candidates. — Jarod Kintz

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself. — Paulo Coelho

I don't believe in fate," Buckle said firmly. "I believe every man chooses his own destiny — Chad Evercroft

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow. — George H. W. Bush

The final aim is not to know, but to be ... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto. — D.H. Lawrence

The cosmic conflict between good and evil is joined; chaotic sea and demonic sea monster verses the morally outraged man, Captain Ahab. In this boat, however, there is one man who does nothing. He doesn't hold an oar; he doesn't perspire; he doesn't shout. He is languid in the crash and the cursing. This man is the harpooner, quiet and poised, waiting. And then this sentence: 'To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of his world must start to their feet out of idleness, and not out of toil.' Was this the confirmation to cultivate what I had named an 'unbusy pastor'? — Eugene H. Peterson

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind. — Mencius

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one. — Kid Cudi

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer. — Saint John Chrysostom

He placed me on a pedestal, and wondered why his Queen was only a mere doll in the looking glass. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature. — R.W. Erskine

But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute. — Hermann Hesse

Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die? — Emil M. Cioran

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within. — Oodgeroo Noonuccal

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. — Elizabeth Warren