Pardo Quotes

#1. When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

J. D. Pardo

#2. Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#3. The ocean's soul is water,
the sun's soul is light,
and the universe's soul is love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I'm ready for a different America.

Gary Johnson

#5. They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?

Marcus Sedgwick

#6. In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.

Phillip Phillips

#7. I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

J. D. Pardo

#8. Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product.

Jimmy Pardo

#9. I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

Hillary Clinton

#10. You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Greg Lake

#11. It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

J. D. Pardo

#12. I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.

J. D. Pardo

#13. One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

David A. Noebel

#14. Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#15. The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#16. The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#17. Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

J. D. Pardo

#18. To fine that light within
that's the genius of poetry.

Julie Harris

#19. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Henry Drummond

#20. Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Washington Irving

#21. I don't know if I'm dreaming when I sleep or sleeping while I'm awake, but I have reoccurring dreams my mind cannot take

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#22. And what great thing have you done?" asked the peasant. "We? Oh, nothing." "Then to the oven!" he replied. The

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#23. But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Beth Henley

#24. A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#25. Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.

Jimmy Pardo

#26. I have never been racist.

Kevin Pietersen

#27. I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.

J. D. Pardo

#28. Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#29. The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch.

Jimmy Pardo

#30. God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#31. Today, and forever, remember that your peace is not dependent on anything but the one-way, never-ending love of Jesus.

Tullian Tchividjian

#32. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#33. Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers.

Gina Willner-Pardo