Stylianos Kyriakides Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value. — Karen Rose

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise. — Eric Hoffer

You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water. — Christy Hall

The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank ... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens and clears, and evening comes. I stood and watched it. That immense body, dying trillions of feet away from me, still warming my face with its steady insensate chemistries. — Charles Finch

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? — Karen Horney

A witch there was, who webs could weave
to snare the heart and wits to reave,
who span dark spells with spider-craft,
and as she span she softly laughed;
a drink she brewed of strength and dread
to bind the quick and stir the dead.
In a cave she housed where winging bats
their harbour sought, and owls and cats
from hunting came with mournful cries,
night-stalking near with needle eyes. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again. — Abraham Lincoln

all the magic in the world is rubbish compared to good people who take care of their own. — Rae Carson

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser . — Jim Gaffigan

SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZE
ACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER
P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER
AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME — S.A. David

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. — Joseph Addison

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld