quotes about Panama

“Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.”

“We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.”

“Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.”

“I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.”

“I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.”

“As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.”

“The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.”

“If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?”

Source : "Scouting for Sponsors, Pope-ophobia", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2005.

“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”

Source : "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.

“The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.”