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“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”
Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
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“The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.”
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“We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.”
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“Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.”
Source : Source: www.politico.com
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“An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.”
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“Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.”
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“In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.”
Source : Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press
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“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
