Alistair Horne Quotes

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

Alistair Horne

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
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• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
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• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• I have to be honest - I don't love guns.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Honest
  • Have
  • Guns

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Woman
  • Dreams
  • Warrior

• I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fight
  • Vacation
  • Much

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Why
  • Golf
  • Act

• Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Practice

• A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People

• During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • March

• all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

  

  Kate Constable
  • Different
  • Faces
  • Mystery

• You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Loyalty
  • Worth
  • Wounds

• After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Loyalty