Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment. Following directly upon his decisio...
I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterb...
He had seen it, even in men who had undergone a complete ideological reversal, who in the secret hours of the night had found a new creed, and alone, compelled by the internal power of their convictio...
Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [...] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...
—Vive de la inteligencia de sus subordinados. En fin, quizá en esto consista la gran virtud del jefe, en nuestros días.
É caminhando que aprendo o rumo do meu caminho
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it’s the best we can manage.
He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.
CIA Interrogator:Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilf...
All life has taught me to leave dangerous things unsaid.
W ciemności wszystkie koty są czarne...
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour. He is a secondary power like you British. He can start a war but cannot continue one and cannot win one. Believe me.
In a civilized country you can never tell.
Do you now have all the information you require?’ ‘No.’ ‘I envy you.
It's a law. A man's got to pay for his own dreams.
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.