Transversal Quotes & Sayings

The only truth is love beyond reason. — Alfred De Musset

No salvation comes from exhumed gods; we must penetrate deeper into substance. If I take a fossil, say, a trilobite, in my hand (marvelously preserved specimens are found in the quarries at the foot of the Casbah), I am transfixed by the impact of mathematical harmony. Purpose and beauty, as fresh as on the first day, are still seamlessly united in a medal engraved by a master's hand. The bios must have discovered the secret of tripartition in this primordial crab. Tripartition then frequently recurs, even without any natural kinship; figures, in transversal symmetry, dwell in the triptych.
How many millions of years ago might this creature have animated an ocean that no longer exists? I hold its impression, a seal of imperishable beauty, in my hand. Some day, this seal, too, will decay or else burn out in cosmic conflagrations of the future. The matrix that formed it remains concealed in and operative from the law, untouched by death or fire. — Ernst Junger

Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I'm not gonna lie about it: I don't deserve you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I'm all yours. — Abbi Glines

Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we are lost in the process. What could be something that can provide us a transversal political sense of belonging? At the end of the day, without an alternative we end up with populism in the name of very narrow identities. — Tariq Ramadan

If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong. — John Grisham

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity. — Lindsay Duncan

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better? — Elizabeth Berkley

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. — Raymond Chandler

I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere. — Jim Butcher

He doesn't have to speak for me. I have a mouth. I can do it for myself. — Milly Taiden

We have our own souls and we choose who we want to be. — Michelle Horst

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong. — Isak Dinesen

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. — Edwidge Danticat