Janus Quotes: top 20 famous quotes about Janus

Janus Quotes & Sayings

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Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not two
Aphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face. — E. M. Forster

You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus. — Chris Lester

Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart. — Nirmala Srivastava

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. — John Dryden

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country? — Donald Jeffries

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular! — Honore De Balzac

But there was never any arguing with Janus, least of all from the other end of a flik-flik line. — Django Wexler

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. — Bill Nighy

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward. — Frank Herbert

Raesinia wondered if Maurisk, in the barricaded offices of the Hotel Ancerre, repeated it to himself. Janus is coming. — Django Wexler

Let us see rather that like Janus - or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death - religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy ... — Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom! — Takeda Shingen

Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough. — Han Seung-yeon

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?' — Lucy Hale

Michael Varus drew his sword. 'My father is Janus, the god of two faces. I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions. — Rick Riordan

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values. — Herb Kohl

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln