Elytis Odysseas Quotes

#1. Man is doomed not when he does not know, but when he does not want to know.

Raheel Farooq

#2. Suddenly, just in time, I realised that he was a filthy Hun, so of course I turned my back on him and refused to shake hands. I think he noticed; anyway, I hope so. I hope he felt his position - General Murgatroyd

Nancy Mitford

#3. It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures ... that is devishly hard!

Vaclav Havel

#4. I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies - I felt like saying "Howdy cousin," to everybody who walked by.

Gary Reilly

#5. When a potter bakes a pot, he checks its solidity by pulling it out of the oven and thumping it. If it "sings" it's ready. If it "thuds," it's placed back in the oven. The character of a person is also checked by thumping. Been thumped lately?

Anonymous

#6. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Odysseas Elytis

#8. The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

Jon Kyl

#9. The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.

Odysseas Elytis

#10. I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

Ralph Fiennes

#11. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Odysseas Elytis

#12. Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.

William O. Wooldridge

#13. The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

Waylon Jennings

#14. As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

Katherine Mansfield

#15. Bliss is not subtractbale.

Odysseas Elytis

#16. He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

Robert Frost

#17. We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.

Odysseas Elytis

#18. I would love it if party labels were not allowed on ballots and people were forced to actually know who they were voting for. Blind loyalty to a party platform is tantamount to relinquishing the important duties of intelligent voting.

Ben Carson

#19. What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?
That's when you need a drink the most.

Charles Bukowski

#20. If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Franz Kline