Pantos Quotes & Sayings

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land. — Bob Menendez

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert

An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock. — Dani Rodrik

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world. — Etgar Keret

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven't been standardized and institutionalized? — Peter Thiel

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously. — Randall Munroe

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars. — Marilyn Manson

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships) — Tony Robbins

Cock your hats, angles are attitudes — Frank Sinatra

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham

Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care. — Gordon T. Smith

If authority be required, let us appeal to Plutarch, the prince of ancient biographers. [Greek: Oute tais epiphanestatais praxesi pantos enesti daelosis aretaes ae kakias, alla pragma brachu pollakis, kai raema, kai paidia tis emphasin aethous epoiaesen mallon ae machai murionekroi, kai parataxeis ai megistai, kai poliorkiai poleon.] Nor is it always in the most distinguished atchievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles. — Samuel Johnson

All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep, somewhere beyond the throes of an entangled and inept nightmare, the ordered reality of the waking hour. — Vladimir Nabokov

I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind — Joss Stirling

Dean: God exists without qualms. As we roll along this way, I am positive beyond doubt that everything will be taken care of for us - that even you, as you drive, fearful of the wheel - the thing will go along of itself and you won't go off the road and I can sleep. — Jack Kerouac