Pirenne Henri Quotes & Sayings

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes. — Tony Fernandes

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares! — Rachel Zoe

One thing is certain - that there was an active circulation of money. We must repudiate the idea that the people of the Merovingian epoch lived under a system of natural economy. — Henri Pirenne

Pirenne was quite right that the ancient trading economy continued after the first invasions and the establishment of the mixed Romano-barbarian successor kingdoms. Some kind of connectivity by sea endured continuously, even if at very low levels (Horden and Purcell 2000). — Henri Pirenne

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society. — Simon Sinek

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' — Sinclair Lewis

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. — Henri Pirenne

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity. — Henri Pirenne

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. — Sarah Dessen

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends. — Mary Shelley

There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society. — Henri Pirenne

We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. — Tom Ford

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. — Henri Pirenne

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction. — Steven Wright

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity. — Walter Wink

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne