Fernand Braudel Mediterranean Quotes & Sayings

She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place. — Jonathan Franzen

To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks. — Peter Cundill

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport ... it's fun! — Jesse Harris

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it. — Jeremy Taylor

Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way. — Federico Fellini

...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outlier, the foundations of the rule of law begin to crumble.

US counterterrorism practices--and the legal theories that under-pin them--are undermining the international rule of law in precisely this way... — Rosa Brooks

I don't hold with wearing ironmongery. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm actually totally the prude of my family. — Sue Naegle

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s. — Allison Anders

Doors of the future are open to those who know how to push them — Coluche

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state. — Vladimir Putin

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. — Andrew Lau

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. — Larry Page