"Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water."

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Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.

Ihara Saikaku

#Fall Quotes #Ice Quotes #Water Quotes

“Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.164, University of Chicago Press
“We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?”
“You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.”
“If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.”

Source : "Personal Email and Private Clouds Fall in War on Privacy". www.infoworld.com. August 09, 2013.
“I can't draw. I can't paint. But what I can do is tell somebody else what to do. I'm a creator. I can tell an artist what to do. I can be behind the artist. I have the eye, so I can move things around. I can put stones together. I can match them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.”

Source : "Greek Cypriots elect Nicos Anastasiades as president" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2013.
“Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.”

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