Alan Furst Quotes

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

Alan Furst

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• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Know
  • Intelligent
  • Say

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Reality
  • Comedy
  • Star

• I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Proud
  • Audience

• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feel

• I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Trust
  • Leader
  • Open

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • Car
  • Shoes

• People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Always
  • Weird

• You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Live

• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Happy
  • No Way

• After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

  

  John Woolman
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Support

• I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

  

  Alan Furst