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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.


John le Carre


#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.


John le Carre


#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.


Lewis Carroll


#life #others #really #secrets #worth

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.


Angela Carter


#authentic #credit #gain #hoax #miracle

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.


Helena Bonham Carter


#back #before #being #civilized #easy

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.


Jimmy Carter


#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.


William Vickrey


#accumulate #assets #debt #desire #government

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.


George Washington Carver


#bird #color #every #flower #got

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.


Joyce Cary


#continuous #creation #creative #creative spirit #evil

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.


Julian Casablancas


#big #choice #cool #doing #equally






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