"The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies"

-- Mary Fulbrook

#Ambition Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?”
“New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.”
“Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.”
“I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.263, A&C Black
“I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.”
“I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.”
“I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.”

Source : 1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.
“Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.”

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