John Berger Quotes
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Jack Reed
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
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What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.
Anna Popplewell
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Superbia, invidia e avarizia sonole tre faville c'hanno i cuori accesi.
Dante Alighieri
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
Vaclav Havel
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Mister Speaker, I am not able to understand the mental organization of the man who can consider this bill, and the subject of which it treats, as free from very great difficulties. He must be a man of very moderate abilities, whose ignorance is bliss, or a man of transcendent genius, whom no difficulties can daunt and whose clear vision no cloud can obscure.
James A. Garfield
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Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
Brantley Gilbert
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger
