Pantokrator Quotes & Sayings

We have an intuitive sense of our duty. — Jonathan Swift

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation. — Samuel Johnson

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator. For 'god' is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body as is supposed by those for whom God i the world soul, but over servants. The supreme God is an eternal, infinite, and absolutely perfect being; but a being, however perfect, without dominion is not the Lord God. — Isaac Newton

A band played live Muzak. — Don DeLillo

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. — Margaret Mitchell

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached. — Antonin Scalia

The lies you wanted to hear were the easiest ones to tell. — James Whitfield Thomson

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. — Alex Flinn

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves. — Ahmed Sekou Toure

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama. — Bear Bryant