Theodoros Stamos Quotes & Sayings

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you. — Flora Robson

It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make a summer another swallow, sensing and anticipating summer, must not fly? If every blade of grass waited similarly summer would never occur. And it is the same with establishing the Kingdom of God: we must not think about whether we are the first or the thousandth swallow. — Leo Tolstoy

There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God. — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell

This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience'n'all but if you don't line up out here at the count of five then I'm gonna get all trigger-happy on your ass. One, two ... — Philip Webb

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents. — Simon Newcomb

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. — Gregory Maguire

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow. — Ja Rule

But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. — Lesley Howarth

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. — Jean Stafford

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones. — Harry Graf Kessler

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't. — Marianne Williamson

In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances. — K. Patricia Cross

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am. — Fran Lebowitz

It is in the dark quietness the mind likes to play. The weak and tired body looses it's battle for power while the minds plays it's wild adventures for you to explore. — E.A.G.