Villaveces Athens Quotes & Sayings

You've already been at the bottom. Why don't you go for the top? — Jillian Michaels

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. — Leonard Cohen

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [ ... ] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70) — Neil Postman

She resolved every day to:
1. Do something for someone else.
2. Do something for myself
3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing.
4. Do a physical exercise
5. Do a mental exercise
6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings — Marci Shimoff

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me. — Rita Hayworth

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. — Rupert Murdoch

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better. — Pat McBride

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet. — Johan Cruyff

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins. — Jeanne Marie Laskas

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges. — Joshua Waitzkin

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that. — Patton Oswalt