Angelos Quotes

Karikis then uttered what I thought to be a pretty fair assessment of the larger political situation in Greece. "This society is a society that has been very dependent on state money," he said, extinguishing his cigarette. "It's a communistic capitalism which gives people a small slice of state money so they will shut the fuck up and continue to bear the stealing. Now they say it's our fault because we received the state money." He paused and snapped: "Bullshit!" Then he added in a calmer voice, "We are bearing the weight of the public deficit because of our very big salaries? That is a myth. That is not half true. It's maybe one-quarter true. ~ James Angelos

How will I ever learn to forget
what I can no longer delete? ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I prefer to be surrounded by true ugliness rather than false beauty ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

A fire is born long before its first flame. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

You can pray to God for your dream but you cannot tell Him how to realize it. Just watch for the signs. If you follow the signs you are on your path. Your path is a path of pleasure. ~ Angelos Ioannis

Love is when you give everything to protect your loved one from your own sorrow ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

You may not see me, but I am near.
Travel through time.
Travel through space.
Travel through eternity.
Some have entertained me, but were not aware.
The infants, ill, and dying see me most, as I bless them with the heavenly hosts.
You are not alone, we are around you, just as we stand before his throne.
I repeat, you are not alone.
Messengers of love and truth walk among mortal men.
You are not alone as we guide you home. ~ David Holdsworth

Each person is a lottery ticket. We are all stubs of our luck. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I am the sum of all the words I've said to you,
I am the sum of all the things I've done to you.
I'm the sum of all my right decisions and all my mistakes,
all my triumphs and all my defeats,
I'm all the moments I dared
and all those I was scared,
all the ugliness I created
and all the beauty I destroyed. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

The sorcery is not confined to the story; it's matched by the magic of Austin's literary craftsmanship.
--Leland Dirks, author of Angelo's Journey ~ R.L. Austin

Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so, - the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets. ~ Edward Carpenter

Looking forward to it, Angelo." Angelo's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed. "Would you like to see my bedroom?" "I would." Corey smiled. "I absolutely would. ~ Darien Cox

From Bought: The Greek's Innocent Virgin ... He drew in a long breath. 'You are very difficult to please.'
'No, I'm not. I'm easy to please. When you peel my orange for breakfast, you please me. When you rub my shoulders before I go to sleep, that pleases me. When you defend me from a nasty comment, that pleases me. I'm easy to please, Angelos.' Her heart was pounding. 'Just don't try and buy me. ~ Sarah Morgan

When a man decides to destroy his past,
he automatically ends up destroying the part of his future that he will need the most ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

All that coastline we've been sailing pas is it, but I guess back in the Roman times it was called ... what'd you say, Jason? Bodacious?'
'Dalmatia', Nico said, making Jason jump.
Holy Romulus ... Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there.
Nico has this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows. ~ Rick Riordan

Living one floor below Paradise. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

There's no other kind of happiness except the one you think you don't need. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

As long as you create, you are being created. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Unfortunately I never learned
how to touch my truth without breaking it. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Whenever you are seeking for too long, it is because you are rushing. Whenever you are not finding, it is because you don't want to seek. ~ Angelos Ioannis

What do you call a slap that`s waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Truths hate wearing condoms! ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

It`s not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it`s your sadness that does it. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

The woman tensed. As anger and fear ricocheted across her face, her eyes changed from red to green to brown in a dizzying display like nothing he'd ever seen.

Every instinct in Angelo's body screamed at him to lunge for his weapon. Instead he set his feet for impact, blocking her slashing claws. Unbelievably, after a few moments of struggling, she went still, all the fight gone…

Minka isn't sure she should trust the sexy Special Forces soldier who found her. Subjected to horrors, on the run from scientists set on locking her in a cage, Minka is terrified of the monster she's becoming…and somehow, Angelo is the only one who can calm the beast inside her and make her feel safe.

But can she trust the way he makes her feel when she's not even sure she can trust herself? ~ Paige Tyler

Daniel walked as tall and strong as Ian or Mac, even Hart. "They grow up so fast," Angelo said when he reacheed Cam.
Cameron glanced at him, thinking the man joking, but Angelo's dark eyes were serious.
"Chilhood is gone in the wink of an eye, and then they have to be men. You Anglos are strange, sending your sons out into the world as soon as they get tall enough. My family has been together forever."
"I notice you don't live with them, Angelo, so don't become sentimental. Besides my family is together. Just a bit spread out."
"Rich Anglos need too much space."
"That is true, but it keeps us from killing each other. ~ Jennifer Ashley

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestess
looks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with
Heaven Earth and Time. ~ Daniel Peter Buckley

Corey's feelings mattered. But so did Angelo's. Angelo mattered. But if Corey was planning to cast him aside? Well, then Angelo wanted to give him a good look at exactly what he'd be missing before that happened. And he was going to show him tonight. "Fuck time," he said, and got into his car. Time could kiss his ass. ~ Darien Cox

While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,
His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew. ~ William Butler Yeats

The only thing that is stronger than what I fear
is what I believe in. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I love you." The words were a curse, harsh and punishing. "I can't change it and I don't want to. You're it for me." Angelo's body shook between Gabe's legs. "I gave you my heart in that fucking interrogation room, cop, yet you've been holding yours hostage from me."
He pulled his head back, eyes over-bright, lips red and swollen. "I want those words. I deserve those words." His voice wobbled and broke. "I demand those words. I need them. ~ Avril Ashton

Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time ~ Angelos Michalopoulos