John le Carre Quotes

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 19, 1931

Topics

ServiceIntelligenceBudgetSecret

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

LifeCivilizationSilentComfortable

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Robert Lanza

NatureTimeNothingOurMeans

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

Sophie Aldred

EducationChildrenJobTheatreFirst

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

LifeFreedomWishHumanI WishPure

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

LifeAppearanceNothingRealWorse

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

ChangeInsecurityToughUncertainty

I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

Conrad Ricamora

LovedVillageWantWestCreated

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Apolo Ohno

DownChampionsGetKicked

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

Annie Lennox

LightAmazingAchieveNowSheRoom

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.

Peter Maurer

ResponsibilityConflictBearFragile

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

Peter Dinklage

CatsYearAnimalsEndureDogsFeed

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

Sebastian Thrun

EducationChangeWillEverythingSee

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