Lester Cole Quotes

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

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• In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Son

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • May
  • Design

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • California
  • Weather

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Why
  • Way
  • Ownership

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Political
  • Best
  • Legal

• Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Different
  • Difficult

• Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Feel
  • Situation
  • Curious

• According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

  

  Vanity
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Long
  • Health
  • Rest

• Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge - theology, philosophy, history, art, science - to see the object as in itself it really is.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Art
  • History
  • Science

• 'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • America
  • Culture

• I love onions. I cook with them all the time.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Time

• Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

  

  Lester Cole