"Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief"

-- Publilius Syrus

#Grief Quotes #Tears Quotes #Ready Quotes

“Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.”
“Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.”
“Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.”

Source : "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.
“The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre”

Source : Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.
“Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.”
“Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.”

Source : George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
“People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.”
“Jonathan Swift wrote that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. It is also better to repeat yourself and be thought a scold than to speak only once and never be heard.”

Source : Hugh Hewitt (2006). “A Guide to Christian Ambition: Using Career, Politics, and Culture to Influence the World”, p.122, Thomas Nelson

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