Pamant Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. — Bryce Courtenay

It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors. — Madame Roland

I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State ... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press. — Frederic Bastiat

Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. "And why did I come here?" he wondered. — Leo Tolstoy

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. — Martha Cooley

So this is what I am
Pondering his eyes that could not
Conceive that I was a creature to run from
I who have always believed too much in words — W.S. Merwin

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it. — Bill O'Reilly

You will behold great sorrow, and in this sorrow be happy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant. — John Donne

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag

That imagined 'otherwise' which is our practical heaven. — George Eliot

The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few dozen more of these and some mortar and she'd have that wall she wanted around her terrace. — J.R. Ward

The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. — Benjamin Jowett

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you. — Clint Eastwood