Phaedon Quotes & Sayings

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me. — Dave Eggers

And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware of such an one, I say: your whales must be seen before they can be killed ... — Herman Melville

He understood the measure of his life now to be his capacity to believe in something - anything - other than what was happening in front of him. So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know. — Richard Flanagan

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood

were finally able to fall back asleep. Early on, all of them had seen a counselor; the kids had drawn — Nicholas Sparks

Hence forms of social production that preceded the bourgeois form, are treated by the bourgeoisie in much the same way as the Fathers of the Church treated pre-Christian religions.[46] — Karl Marx

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters. — Callum Keith Rennie

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight. — John Calvin

His eyes are gray oceans of loss and hurt and pain. — E.L. James