Martin Svoboda

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Ian Fleming photo

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Ian Fleming libro Si vive solo due volte

Origine: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.

Jack London photo

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

Variante: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit
Origine: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.

Abraham Lincoln photo

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variante: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Winston Churchill photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

Gabriel García Márquez photo

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Variante: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!

Gabriel García Márquez photo

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

Gabriel García Márquez libro L'amore ai tempi del colera

Origine: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Harriet Beecher Stowe photo
Isaiah Berlin photo

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas

Oscar Wilde photo