Costa Gavras Quotes

Your destination and destiny are uncertain, but you can create the illusion of certainty if you know the direction you are going. — Ben Tolosa

Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God. — Jim Burns

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians. — Costa-Gavras

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long. — Kurt Eichenwald

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park. — Michelle Rowen

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world. — Costa-Gavras

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?
It is
to master death. — Anne Carson

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit. — Costa-Gavras

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation. — Bernhard Rust

America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. — Christine Lahti

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. — John Mulaney

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb. — Alice Munro

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions. — Costa-Gavras

When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it. — Giuliano Amato

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes. — Louise Imogen Guiney