"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."

-- Thomas Friedman

#Hands Quotes #Fists Quotes

“Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“If we stay in one place, we will become outdated”
“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”
“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”
“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.”
“Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.”
“I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral”

Source : In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3

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