Pensar Academy Quotes

#1. Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

J.K. Rowling

#2. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

#3. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Haruki Murakami

#4. There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

#5. One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

Oliver Goldsmith

#6. I am just trying to keep it real.

Jessie Ware

#7. What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

John Grier Hibben

#8. I'll win you over eventually. I'm very charming that way.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#9. Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Albert Camus

#11. The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

John Hope Bryant

#12. The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

Simon Hoggart

#13. Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

Arthur Bryant

#14. Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Linden Ashby

#15. The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

John Hersey