Neal Ascherson Quotes
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
-
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
-
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
-
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
-
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
-
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
-
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
-
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
-
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
-
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
-
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
-
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
-
Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
-
I love Costco.
-
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
-
I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
-
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
-
In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
-
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.
-
I don't get political.
-
It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
-
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
-
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
