"They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties."

-- Bernard Pivot

#Stress Quotes #Nuance Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.”
“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”
“I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin”
“When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.”

Source : Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.35, Totus Tuus Press
“We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.”
“I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.”
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”
“I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.”

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