"It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]"

-- Ovid

#Punishment Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Minus Quotes

“The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the ÂŽfirst time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this â€˜interregnumâ€™ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.”
“Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.”
“By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.”
“People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.”

Source : "The beauty of bendable batteries" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2005.
“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
“I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”
“Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.”
“You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.”

Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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