"Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have."

-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Player Quotes #History Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I do think it's possible to change for the better.”
“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”
“Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.”

Source : Joanne Harris (2001). “Five Quarters of the Orange”
“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press
“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
“I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.”
“Never try to be funny right before people are about to masturbate.”

Source : "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art”

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