Quotes
Authors
George Orwell
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right." --
George Orwell
#Party Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Eye Quotes
“What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!”
“People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.”
Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.”
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”
Source : The Last Lecture, 2008.
“I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.”
Source : "The Idea of the Future Is Dead". Interview with Thom Mayne,
“It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.”
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.”