"I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts."

-- Robert Walpole

#Effort Quotes #Patriot Quotes #Despise Quotes

“I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?”
“I read very little contemporary anything.”

Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.
“The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.”
“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.”
“Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.”
“The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.”
“It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.”
“History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”

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