Pardo Quotes & Sayings

I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now. — J. D. Pardo

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear. — J. D. Pardo

God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. — Cecelia Ahern

Mercenariness, pride, routine, and indolence are the capital sins of the Russian office-holder, and the first has so strong a hold upon him that the people say, "To make yourself understood by him you must talk of rubles;" adding that in Russia everybody robs but Christ, who cannot because his hands are nailed down. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. — Charlie Haden

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz. — Jimmy Pardo

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. — Bill Cosby

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand. — J. D. Pardo

Good nature is often a mere matter of health. — Henry Ward Beecher

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood. — J. D. Pardo

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God. — Ramakrishna

The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch. — Jimmy Pardo

Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers. — Gina Willner-Pardo

Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning. — J. D. Pardo

Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it. — B. J. Porter

And what great thing have you done?" asked the peasant. "We? Oh, nothing." "Then to the oven!" he replied. The — Emilia Pardo Bazan

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort ... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. — Camille Claudel

I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep. — J. D. Pardo

Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people. — Megan Hart

Don't stop until you get the pump, just do the fake. — NBA Entertainment

I am blind. I am supposed to be retarded. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give. — Robert D. Hales

The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The — Emilia Pardo Bazan

A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling. — George Pattison

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. — Moritz Gudemann

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. — John Muir

Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product. — Jimmy Pardo