Pandora's Box Quotes

• Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Insecurity, Doubt, Pandora's Box

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• You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Pandora's Box, Sometimes, Boxes

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.127, Macmillan

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• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

  Mason Cooley

  I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

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• From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Greek, Humanity, Pandora's Box

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

  Peter Singer

  Waiting, Stories, Wow

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  Voltaire

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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• Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

  Ian Caldwell

  Sorrow, Lasts, Pandora's Box

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• If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

  Vladimir Putin

  Want, Pandora's Box, Boxes

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

  Ernest Bevin

  Funny, Humor, Pandora's Box

  On the Council of Europe, in Sir Roderick Barclay 'Ernest Bevin and Foreign Office' (1975) ch. 3

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• In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

  Candace Bushnell

  Girl, Fire, Apples

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• I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

  Emma Caulfield

  Love Life, Thinking, Talking

  "Exclusive Q&A: Actress Emma Caulfield Picks the Right TiMER". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

  Jules Henry

  Giving, Needs, Culture

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• I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

  Bjork

  Air, Feminist, Littles

  "The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Bjork". Interview with Jessica Hopper, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2015.

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• On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.

  Sharon Creech

  Night, Might, Pandora's Box

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• When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Years, Curiosity

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• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.

  Stewart Jackson

  Gay, Community, Groups

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• When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Dna, Hands

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview By Paul D. Miller". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

  Christine Sneed

  Years, Pandora's Box, Facts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dna, Ears, Pandora's Box

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• “Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

  Gena Showalter

  Children, Character, Mean

  "The Darkest Night". Book by Gena Showalter, 2008.

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• ... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

  Katharine Tynan

  Country, Believe, Destiny

  Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”

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• Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

  Rick Santorum

  Pandora's Box, Slippery Slope, Boxes

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2015.

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• America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

  Susan Cain

  Character, America, Personality

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