John le Carre Quotes

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

John le Carre

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Success
  • Pride

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Sound

• Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Like
  • Bars

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Personality
  • Lose
  • Rights

• When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Success

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Listening
  • More
  • Tells

• And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press End in what All begins and ends in - Yes; Think then you are To-day what Yesterday You were - To-morrow You shall not be less.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine

• I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Up
  • Men

• I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Life
  • School
  • Beautiful

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Want

• I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When we use the spiritual Meronian language, the word 'international' doesn't do justice to our band. This kind of psychic language's means of communication can reach galaxies beyond our planet, not to mention the other living and inanimate entities of our own planet.

  

  Jussi Lehtisalo Circle
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Justice

• We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

  

  John le Carre
  • Life
  • Political