Gertrude Diamant quotes

“For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.”
-- Gertrude Diamant

#Order Quotes #Void Quotes #Passing Quotes

“it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?”
-- Gertrude Diamant

#Travel Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Land Quotes

“I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.”
-- Gertrude Diamant

#Race Quotes #Weather Quotes #Gold Quotes

“... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.”
-- Gertrude Diamant

#People Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”

“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.”

“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”

Source : Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books

“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.”

“He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.”

“You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.”