C.P. Cavafy Quotes

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

C.P. Cavafy

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Fashion

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Myself

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Best

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Year
  • Lived
  • Canada

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• I don't really yell at people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Really
  • Yell

• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Negative

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Health
  • Proud
  • Christianity

• Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

  

  John Oliver
  • America

• People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Fortunate
  • Exaggerate

• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Important
  • Future

• Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Music
  • School
  • Father

• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Important
  • Father
  • Scripture