Alan Furst Quotes
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
-
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
-
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
-
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
-
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
-
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
-
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
-
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
-
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
-
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
-
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
-
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
-
Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
-
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
-
I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
-
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
-
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
-
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
-
Only God's Thoughts - or love - is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.
-
The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
-
I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
-
Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.
-
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
