#esp

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. ↗

— John le Carré

#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#consider #especially #found #history #i

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#british #how #like #nation #only

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#anything #covet #except #nation #respect

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#especially #imagination #logic #mathematics #need

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. ↗

— Sally Field

#come #comedy #did #especially #film

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#also #beautiful #between #biggest #codes

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#am #balance #become #choose #especially

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#early #even #go #i #kids