Mantica Quotes & Sayings

Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt. — Alex London

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world? — Kyle Chandler

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict. — Anthony Lewis

My hero is the mayor in Jaws. He's a fantastic guy, and he keeps the beaches open, if you remember, even after it's demonstrated that his constituents have been eaten by this killer fish. Of course, he was proved catastrophically wrong in his judgment, but his instincts were right.'
Boris Johnson is the mayor of London.
Taken from Time Magazine interview: June 25, 2012; page 76. — Boris Johnson

The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a frozen ballet, breathing a ghostly incense from dark, arid chapels sheltered by their branches. — Graham Joyce

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works. — Ken Blanchard

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me. — Hugh Leonard

Why don't suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums? — Mary Roach

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Pir Vilayat Khan

Blind, blind, blind . . . — Charles Dickens

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written. — Richard Rohr