Stathopoulos Delphi Quotes & Sayings

It is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact. — John Wooden

Well, one couldn't help one's thoughts. One could help opening one's mouth and saying something really stupid, though. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You are so pure in mind and heart,
In aspect, too, so mild,
I wonder that you ever could
Implant your wife with child. — Martial

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places. — Gillian Anderson

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day. — Paulo Coelho

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. — John Burroughs

A yard and left, Dave, he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys — Lee Child

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it. — Steven Michael Quezada

You can be flat on your ass but still be a winner. — Charles Ayres

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? — Thomas Carlyle

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. — Joan Halifax

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this. — Lou Holtz

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on. — Marcel Proust

[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long. — Evelyn Waugh

Fairmont wasn't a place where we'd usually spend the afternoon. It was full of overpriced boutiques, overpriced coffee, and Mossley Academy, which was full of overpriced assholes. — Stephanie Perkins