Richard Fleischer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

  • Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

  • There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

  • Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  • We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

  • It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

  • There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

  • You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

  • Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

  • The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.