3 December 2020 John le Carre I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
3 December 2020 Javier Bardem When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
3 December 2020 James Wood I’m famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and b) It’s probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, ‘Just come on up.’
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
3 December 2020 Jerry Lewis People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
3 December 2020 Boris Pasternak Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
3 December 2020 Clement Mok Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
3 December 2020 Paul Getty The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
3 December 2020 George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
3 December 2020 Richard Morris For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
3 December 2020 A. E. Housman Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
3 December 2020 Hans Kung All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
3 December 2020 David Boies Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It’s just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
3 December 2020 Morris West Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
3 December 2020 Sean Durkin In editing, it’s amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It’s amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
