Patakis Quotes & Sayings

With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity — Marcel Proust

In our patakis, our folk myths, we believe that we come to the world with a destiny we picked for ourselves in Arun. Obatala creates the human body, but you have to get your head from the potter who molds them out of clay in his warehouse. On a good day he makes beautiful heads, but sometimes he gets drunk and makes a bad head. It's a divine defect. There's no way to tell from the outside, but once you've chosen your head, you have to live your destiny. — Lauren Beukes

In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? — Louis Aragon

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. — Aeschylus

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers. — Jamie Dimon