Panathenaic Way Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It's not because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence. — Andrea Dworkin

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars. — Orrin Woodward

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me. — Tim Howard

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. — Robley Wilson

I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change. — Ashraf Ghani

A fat servant is not much of a man. A beaten servant is a great man, because in his breast freedom has its home. — Halldor Laxness

I think I like 'em better like that ... divinely dull ... just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. — Edith Wharton

Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her books are really well known. Unfortunately they've been parodied to death, but they're so well known that I feel like I should approach it and I think I have an idea that will definitely spin it in a different way. There's melancholy and sadness around the edges. I haven't read all of her books, but it seems they often have ... essentially happy endings? — Robert Sikoryak

Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal. — Kim Yuna

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it. — Mary Hesse

Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it! — Tom Peters

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley

Never, ever ever ever ever give up. — Winston Churchill

I think I was a born scientist. — Ken Wilber

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. — Mary Shelley

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature. — Alvar Aalto