"Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!"

-- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

#Past Quotes #Errors Quotes #Anticipation Quotes

“Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.”
“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132
“Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.”
“Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.”
“I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.”
“I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.”

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