"The cat does not negotiate with the mouse."

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Source : Robert K. Massie (2012). “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, p.558, Random House

Robert K. Massie

#Cat Quotes #Doe Quotes #Mice Quotes

“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”
“We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.”
“A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Sep 10, 2015
“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the worldâ€¦”
“Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.”
“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.”
“Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.”
“I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.”

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