#custom

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power. ↗

— Franz Rosenzweig

#customs #death #europe #language #law

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#developers #easier #jobs #likely #lot

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#attend #church #custom #fast #follow

Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer. Even the people you're paid to shoot at? Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service. -Captain Kevyn Andreyasn & General Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#customer-service #mercenaries #money #sci-fi #violence

My customers are successful workingwomen. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#successful

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#customers #dealing #i #important #individuality

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#better #come #customers #look #shop

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#get #long #lull #paying #slapped

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final