Vendredi Saint 2021 Quotes

#1. Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

David Eagleman

#3. It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.

Sheila Kohler

#4. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#5. The study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)

Robert Schumann

#6. In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Diana Vreeland

#7. Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Anita Loos

#8. The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#9. Your soul is so close to mine
That what you dream, I know. ...
I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!

Rumi

#10. Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Tony Snow

#11. I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

Anna Funder