Agapi Stassinopoulos Quotes

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Only silence perfects silence.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Silence
  • Only

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thoughts
  • Meditation

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Home
  • You
  • Yourself

• This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Victory

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Challenge
  • Dry
  • Bone

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art

• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Value

• The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

  

  Anna Akhmatova

• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Light
  • Hair
  • I Feel

• Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • World
  • Peace

• Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Good
  • Start

• Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

  

  Agapi Stassinopoulos
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Waves