Pandoras Quotes & Sayings

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out. — Ernest Bevin

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself. — Albert Camus

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. — Lindsey Buckingham

I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not. — Denise Grover Swank

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at. — Theodor W. Adorno

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope ... plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that. — Rick Santorum

Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside. — Michel Foucault

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Digital books, like television and other media, are best meant for those Pandoras who've already opened their boxes and know what demons to expect inside. — Jason Merkoski

How can I love you and not be afraid? You're my life, Eve, my heart. You're asking, you're wondering if I ever worry, if I ever fear, that one day Peabody or Feeney, your commander - a cop who's become a friend - will knock on my door? Of course I do. — J.D. Robb

But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform - perfunctorily - on a stage behind the bar. — Anthony Bourdain

Office of the Vice President ... The Council on Competativeness. — Dan Quayle

This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness. — John Piper

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure. — Dan Brown