"The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy."

“The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.”

“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

Source : 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“I'm not really a clothes guy. I'd rather be naked.”

Source : "Chatting with Damon Wayans, Jr.–The "Let's Be Cops" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. September 8, 2014.

“When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.”

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”

Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.”