#pa

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. ↗

— Tony Benn

#dangerous #disagrees #each #find #first

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#boy #company #completely #grown #grown man

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?' ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#always #bit #goal #goalkeeper #him

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#been #i #parties #resistant

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#all day #being #bloody #champagne #day

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#giants #grim #like #peace #precocious

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#film #harry #joe #like #patently

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#accompanies #always #arrogance #assume #choice