Tsiakkas Xynisteri Quotes & Sayings

I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, to show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with fresh pertinacity to convince me; I preserve a dogged silence, and he thinks I am meditating deeply on the truths which he is uttering; at last I rush from his company, and he supposes that some urgent business hurries me elsewhere. This man will never understand that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Literary history and the present are dark with silences ... I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences
what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)
that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. — Tillie Olsen

Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized. — Barry Ritholtz

Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end. — Jay Crownover

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth

Some people lose the ones they love, and then realize they never truly appreciated what they had. — Jason Pellegrini

There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read ... the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd. — Robert Green Ingersoll

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. — George Pierce Baker

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling. — Michelle Sagara West

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. — Daphne Zuniga

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney) — Alane Ferguson

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages. — David Berlinski

They only had Saturdays, because Mondays were a little bit too close to Sundays for Sunday's liking, as if Monday were a collapsed star in the week's solar system, with an excessive gravitational pull. — Matt Haig

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home. — Elvis Presley