Constantine Cavafy Quotes

#1. At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We're sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.

Ken Wheaton

#2. Hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.

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#3. I have gazed so much on beauty
that my eyes overflow with it.

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#4. Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Steve Jobs

#5. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#6. I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

Jonathan Falwell

#7. And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.

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#8. The days of the future stand in fornt of us
Like a line of candles all alight
Golden and warm and lively little candles
The days that are past are left behind

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#9. And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

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#10. To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No ...

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#11. Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.

Ruth Gruber

#12. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

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#13. The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

A.J. Liebling

#14. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#15. And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.

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#17. Here I am, Lord. I am tired, Lord. Please stop calling me in the night. I just got some decent sleep, Lord. I'm hanging out here for a while. Your people will be fine.

Melinda Means

#18. I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dave Attell

#19. And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Robert Barry

#20. Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.

Abelardo Morell

#21. Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey.

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#22. When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

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#23. You will always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere else in the world

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#24. When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.

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#25. Dude, he's got that mean, squinty Clint Eastwood stare that's scary as shit.[Bailey]

Lorelei James

#26. There's nothing sexier than a girl who's like, 'I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I'm going to give you a new deal.' and then, over a period of years, she structures her sex acts in such a way that they save the economy.

Eugene Mirman

#27. As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

Jacque Fresco

#28. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...

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