Pontaniou Quotes & Sayings

If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.'-Sirius black. — J.K. Rowling

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Funny how life messed with you. — Sarah Mlynowski

Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant. — Robert A. Heinlein

He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?' ...
She couldn't say forgiveness, not to Liir. She started to say 'a soldier,' to make fun of his mooning affections over the guys in uniform. But realizing even as she said it that he would be hurt, she caught herself halfway, and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both.
She said, 'A soul-'
He blinked at her. — Gregory Maguire

Why is it that the people you care about the most end up making you feel so meaningless? — Sudeep Nagarkar

Today, he'd observed them seize a woman who'd gotten pregnant with an unregistered child. There'd be no chance at lenience. She would be Confined until she gave birth, the child would be placed in the Council's care, and the mother would be executed. The ship could only support a certain number of lives, and allowing anyone to disrupt the delicate balance would jeopardize the entire race. — Kass Morgan

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. — Henry Becque

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps. — Alan Ladd

If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway. — Charlaine Harris

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness - they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist. — C.S. Lewis

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine. — Charles Dickens

Though my theory was books chose us, and not the other way around. — Rebecca Raisin

Think too much and you start to panic. Better to keep moving. — James N. Cook