
— Ian McCulloch singer, musician 1959
Referring to Echo & the Bunnymen continuing after he left the band.
Q magazine (1992)
Origine: Ender's Game
— Ian McCulloch singer, musician 1959
Referring to Echo & the Bunnymen continuing after he left the band.
Q magazine (1992)
„Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.“
— George S. Patton United States Army general 1885 - 1945
This is almost always attributed to US Ambassador Francis Meehan http://www.nndb.com/people/060/000121694/, though without citations, and only very rarely to Patton.
Misattributed
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
Rejoinder when told that he couldn't talk about physics, because "nobody [at this table] knows anything about it."
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake", p. 310.
Quoted in Handbook of Economic Growth (2005) by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
„The Conservatives can't talk of class war: they started it.“
— Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947
G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin (1952), p. 31
Undated
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 138
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
„Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.“
— François de La Rochefoucauld, libro Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Ce qui fait que les amants et les maîtresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-mêmes.
Variant translation: What makes lovers and their mistresses never weary of being together is that they are always talking about themselves.
Maxim 312.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
On her song "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)", in a Radio 1 Classic Albums interview with Richard Skinner (26 January 1992) http://gaffa.org/cloud/music/running_up_that_hill.html
Contesto: I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman, can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each other's place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! … And I think it would lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, "well, no, why not a deal with God!" You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal With God", that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title.
— Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883 - 1969
The Question of German Guilt (1947)
Contesto: We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They want only slogans and obedience. They ask no questions and they give no answers, except by repeating drilled-in phrases. They can only assert and obey, neither probe nor apprehend. Thus they cannot be convinced, either. How shall we talk with people who will not go where others probe and think, where men seek independence in insight and conviction?
— Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004
— Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
— Patrick Fitzgerald American lawyer 1960
Fitzgerald News Conference from nytimes.com (October 28, 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/politics/28text-fitz.html?pagewanted=all
„You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…“
— Graham Greene, libro The End of the Affair
Origine: The End of the Affair
„We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead“
— Mathias Malzieu, libro La meccanica del cuore
Origine: La Mécanique du cœur