Stathopoulos George Quotes & Sayings

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world — Hilary Benn

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out. — Shan Sa

Blurring is good for the things you don't want to see but it doesn't work so well for the stuff you actually have to Deal With. — Kathryn Erskine

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. — Natalie Massenet

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual? — Ethel Smyth

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. — Robertson Davies

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. — Anne Rice

My son always says I like very weird music. — Cornelia Funke

I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again! — Jules Verne

Merkin had used only one drop of the "just soap." Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops would have made a Victorian gentleman utter something really lustful, such as "you transfix me quite. — Sorin Suciu

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things. — Mitt Romney

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creating, or at any rate bringing out, the spirit of revolt and individualism that is to kill it. When it is used with a certain amount of kindness, and accompanied by prizes and rewards, it is dreadfully demoralising. People, in that case, are less conscious of the horrible pressure that is being put on them, and so go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other people's thoughts, living by other people's standards, wearing practically what one may call other people's second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment. — Oscar Wilde