Top 28 Constantine P. Cavafy Quotes
#1. I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
E.L. Doctorow
#3. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...
Constantine P. Cavafy
#4. When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#5. One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
Margaret Chase Smith
#6. 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
Constantine P. Cavafy
#7. A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
Florence Nightingale
#8. When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#9. Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#10. Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.
Michael Parenti
#11. What are you?" Conor asked, pulling his arms closer around himself. I am not a "what," frowned the monster. I am a "who." "Who are you, then?" Conor said. The monster's eyes widened. Who am I? it said, its voice getting louder. Who am I? The
Patrick Ness
#12. Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.
Bob Ross
#13. When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#15. He is prepared to bear with them patiently 'so far as it is possible' : that is to say, he trusts that punitive expeditions or annexations may not be necessary. The
E.J. Rapson
#16. 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.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#17. To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No ...
Constantine P. Cavafy
#18. And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#19. 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
Constantine P. Cavafy
#21. Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.
Truman G. Madsen
#22. And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#23. Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
Brad Gilbert
#24. So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#28. Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
Frank Beddor
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