"Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat."

-- Pico Iyer

#Book Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.”
“For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.”
“Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.”
“You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.”
“I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.”
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”
“Let the business of the world take care of itself ... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.”
“I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.”

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