Pandora Quotes - Page 3

• I take offense to that. (Pandora) And I take offense to my sudden need for a testicle retrieval. You know, I would have liked to have fathered children one day. (Mike)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, One Day, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Winter Born”, p.190, St. Martin's Press

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• I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Men, Anxiety

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• When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Years, Curiosity

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• Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Evil, Looks

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• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  Sam Trammell

  Iphone, Car, Listening

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• America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

  Susan Cain

  Character, America, Personality

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• Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

  David Brin

  Inspirational, Life, Mirrors

  David Brin (2013). “Exiles: The Uplift Storm Trilogy”, p.262, Hachette UK

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