Pacillico Quotes & Sayings

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. — James Mackintosh

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. — Rachel Field

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. — Rumi

There's a huge difference between doing what you love as a hobby and doing something professionally. But the biggest struggle is simply finding time to work. — Ryan McGinness

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary? — Carl Sagan

Whereas it was so hard for people to break, but we could get sick or die in what seemed like a matter of seconds. — Jillian Cantor

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world". — George Weigel

I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18. — Condoleezza Rice

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments. — Keith Carter

Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal. — Wanda Sykes

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. — Glenn Miller