John le Carre Quotes

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

John le Carre

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• I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Feel
  • Baseball
  • Decisions

• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Lie
  • Dignity

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Catching
  • Solid
  • Outfield

• In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Been
  • Attack
  • Almost

• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Never
  • Being
  • Lose

• I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Day

• In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Way
  • Forward
  • Speaking

• I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • World
  • Busy
  • Weep

• People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • You
  • Fear
  • Back

• Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fall
  • Equality

• ...often see the glamorous side of this career. ...It's really saying it's not like that and I'm just the girl next door. There's always somebody who either loves you or hates you, and you just have to have a thick skin.

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Door

• My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Feeling

• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  

  Fareed Zakaria

• Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Believe
  • Reading

• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Members
  • Admitted

• I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

  

  John le Carre