Robert Byron quotes

“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”
-- Robert Byron

Source : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo

#People Quotes #Reason Quotes #Modern Quotes

“There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.”
-- Robert Byron

#Sky Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Years Quotes

“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”
-- Robert Byron

Source : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo

#Simple Quotes #Water Quotes #Soda Quotes

“Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.”
-- Robert Byron

Source : 1937 The Road to Oxiana.

#Adventure Quotes #December Quotes #Stomach Quotes

“All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.”
-- Robert Byron

#Tragedy Quotes #Comedy Quotes #States Quotes

“The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”
-- Robert Byron

#Sea Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Might Quotes

“But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.”
-- Robert Byron

#Nice Quotes #Ears Quotes

“All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.”
-- Robert Byron

#Joy Quotes #Misery Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“I think things happened the way they did for a reason”

“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”

“Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.”

“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”

“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

“The self is the modern substitute for the soul.”