“You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Janus nods. “We’re haggling over two issues. A yearly subscription. It’s a pig in a poke. Two pigs.” “In” — Mariam Petrosyan Copy Share Image
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus,"… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
“Rape we all know is the easiest charge to make and most difficult to prove,” Wura paused and sighed again “But with… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires… — George Gilder Copy Share Image