Quotes About Paragons

#1. One of the most surreal aspects of the NSA stories based on the Snowden documents is how they made even the most paranoid conspiracy theorists seem like paragons of reason and common sense.

Bruce Schneier

#2. The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

Jean Nouvel

#3. I'm ain't crazy to be normal

Guy Harduf

#4. Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

Barney Frank

#5. Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Dorothy Richardson

#6. If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'
clean on the outside, dead on the inside.

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. They were paragons of conservative propriety in public, but in private they swung like pinatas.

Nicole Peeler

#8. All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

#9. The highly accomplished were paragons of perseverance.

Angela Duckworth

#10. Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

Oscar Wilde

#11. It's not the gender that matters, you know that. It's the soul inside that counts.

Chanda Stafford

#12. I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Jack Nicholson

#13. Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973.

Philippa Gregory

#14. Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

Marcello Truzzi

#15. They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.

Tom Wolfe

#16. Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.
And then she punched him in the nuts.

Laura Ruby

#17. A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Jalal Talabani

#18. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

Adoniram Judson