Fons Quotes

#1. Apocalypse is the lens through which we view international politics because it is the fons et origo of the concept of history and historiography. Were it not for apocalypse, we would not have the categories of mind with which to ask the questions of meaning and adequacy of interpretation. M

Robert Hamerton-Kelly

#2. Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

Horace

#3. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

Rae Carson

#4. The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Andres Segovia

#5. Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.

Heather O'Neill

#8. The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

Nina LaCour

#9. Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

#10. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell

#11. You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Paul Watson

#12. The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

Fons Trompenaars

#13. Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Fons Trompenaars

#14. The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.

Fons Trompenaars

#15. The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

Ashton Eaton