John le Carre Quotes

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

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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

• I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Great

• Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Trump

• Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Power
  • Community
  • Health

• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • History
  • Age

• I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Enthusiasm
  • Garage

• So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

  

  George Chuvalo
  • Live
  • Things
  • Older

• The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Power
  • Beauty
  • Association

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

  

  John le Carre