"At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered."

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Source : "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

Paul Bourget

#Tone Quotes #Moments Quotes #Certain Quotes

“I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.”
“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Chaos isn't good for your health.”
“The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.”

Source : Peggy Noonan (2015). “The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings”, p.113, Hachette UK
“First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail”
“One more sign of how perfect Damen isâ€”he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.”
“Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.”
“I think it is absolutely reprehensible to believe that any member of this House, Democrat or Republican, would want to do anything that would jeopardize the ability to find out exactly what happened leading up to hurricane Katrina and exactly what happened in the aftermath.”

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