Zissis Perdikis Quotes & Sayings

It's much more difficult to make a judgment on yourself than on anyone else. If you can manage to judge yourself well, you're a truly wise person. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise — Eric Nicol

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. — C.S. Lewis

Write a prescribed amount every day. I find it easiest to assign myself to write a single blog post every day, — Tynan

People don't adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals. — Jonathan Haidt

It was like a tree had sprung up between them, a tree that was just too thick to throw their arms around. — Wiley Cash

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer. — John Oates

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.' — Jenna Blum

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others. — Frederick Lenz

What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color to shift among signals? If he grasped deeply this language of symbols, grasped it beneath the surface, he could course through the currents of authority as they coursed through him like heat or the tremble of cold. — Lydia Millet