Charles Stross Quotes

Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.

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• During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Sacrifice

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

  

  Young Thug
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Close

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Parents
  • Just

• For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Always
  • Humanity

• You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Fashion
  • Choose
  • Vote

• You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Short

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Last

• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Long
  • Perspective
  • Leader

• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Year
  • Prove

• Die wahre Tugend ist Genialität.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May

• A despotic power makes slaves.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power

• When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Work
  • Progress

• I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Together
  • Guitar
  • Able

• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Work
  • Done
  • Best

• Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.

  

  Charles Stross