Yiannis Quotes & Sayings

Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there - tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes. — Deborah Wheeler

Running is not just a sport but a biological necessity. — Yiannis Kouros

When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner — Yiannis Kouros

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own. — Theodor Adorno

All the words are not enough to get anything said. — Yiannis Ritsos

I know that each one of us travels to love alone,
alone to faith and to death.
I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help.
Let me come with you. — Yiannis Ritsos

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations. — Yiannis Stournaras

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides — Ed Ayres

I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self - self-love, self-will, self-ambition - and be placed completely at His disposal. — Billy Graham

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. — Sigrid Undset

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less. — Yiannis Kouros

It is as if I can see my body in front of me. — Yiannis Kouros

... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano ... — Yiannis Ritsos

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance. — Yiannis Kouros

You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine — Jacquelyn Frank

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired, — Yiannis Kouros

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union. — Yiannis Stournaras

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession. — Yiannis Stournaras

Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces — Bruno Latour

According to Yiannis' sister Irini, who had trained as a hairdresser in London, the British spent their long winters in grey and black, and this was why they chose such gaudy colours for the summer: turquoise with blue, orange with pink, mauve with indigo. Colours that didn't go well with the bleached hair of the women and the reddish flush of tans that resulted from too great a greediness for the sun, as if Mother Nature, who hated to be hurried, had imprinted her exasperation on their skin. — Alison Fell

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it. — Yiannis Stournaras

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. — Yiannis Stournaras

And look, my brother, we learned to talk
very quietly and simply.
We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more.
And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler;
we'll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs figs, and a trough a trough, so that others will smile and say: 'We're making you a hundred poems an hour'. This is what we want too.
Because we do not sing to separate ourselves from people, my brother,
we sing to bring people together. — Yiannis Ritsos

So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by
I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly. — Daniel Defoe

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult. — Katy Perry

If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style. — Ludwik Fleck

I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn't even acknowledge me - which is unheard of among sailors - and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba. — Wilbur Smith