W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'

W. Somerset Maugham

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• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Love
  • Business

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Done
  • Truth

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Interested

• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror
  • Beautiful Woman

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Day
  • Always
  • Perform

• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Why
  • Question

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Philosophical

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Water
  • Church
  • Deep

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Future
  • Beautiful
  • Daughter

• The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi. They were Gadhafi devotees who were loyal to him and to the U.S. government with whom their leader reached a 'deal.'

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Military

• Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Real
  • Alcohol
  • Mexican

• Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways.

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Education

• 'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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