"The end was contained in the beginning."

-- George Orwell

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
“Advice for playing Starseed Pilgrim: As long as you still have questions, continue.”
“You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”

Source : "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.
“Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.”

Source : "ECB boss pledges to save the euro". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. July 27, 2012.
“What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.”

Source : In Lord David Cecil 'The Young Melbourne' (1939) ch. 9
“Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.”
“There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on.”
“Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.”

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