Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a ...
JOHN LE CARRE During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey a...
JOHN LE CARRE In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be ...
JOHN LE CARRE A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through brib...
JOHN LE CARRE Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
JOHN LE CARRE I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that al...
JOHN LE CARRE History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARRE The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...
JOHN LE CARRE People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody inv...
JOHN LE CARRE The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in...
JOHN LE CARRE Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LE CARRE Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
JOHN LE CARRE I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must...
JOHN LE CARRE A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
JOHN LE CARRE I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin ...
JOHN LE CARRE In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were de...
JOHN LE CARRE The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you...
JOHN LE CARRE I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic...
JOHN LE CARRE I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared persona...
JOHN LE CARRE 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end...
JOHN LE CARRE It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romant...
JOHN LE CARRE Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonst...
JOHN LE CARRE Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LE CARRE The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
JOHN LE CARRE We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.
JOHN LE CARRE Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions ...
JOHN LE CARRE Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARRE A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
JOHN LE CARRE Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
JOHN LE CARRE I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that eve...
JOHN LE CARRE When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son...
JOHN LE CARRE Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in ...
JOHN LE CARRE Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average read...
JOHN LE CARRE I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret S...
JOHN LE CARRE A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
JOHN LE CARRE I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron...
JOHN LE CARRE I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h...
JOHN LE CARRE You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, sna...
JOHN LE CARRE I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to st...
JOHN LE CARRE The spy who came in from the cold.
JOHN LE CARRE I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and mo...
JOHN LE CARRE The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualific...
JOHN LE CARRE America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
JOHN LE CARRE Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a...
JOHN LE CARRE I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
JOHN LE CARRE It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on t...
JOHN LE CARRE I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
JOHN LE CARRE The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
JOHN LE CARRE In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public...
JOHN LE CARRE But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and hi...
JOHN LE CARRE There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
JOHN LE CARRE When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the ri...
JOHN LE CARRE I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ...
JOHN LE CARRE The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but...
JOHN LE CARRE But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
JOHN LE CARRE I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...
JOHN LE CARRé Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARR History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARR Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...
JOHN LE CARRé Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
JOHN LE CARRé You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we ...
JOHN LE CARR A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...
JOHN LE CARRé There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce...
JOHN LE CARRé Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
JOHN LE CARRé This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at ...
JOHN LE CARRé I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has on...
JOHN LE CARRé It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths i...
JOHN LE CARRé All men are born free: just not for long.
JOHN LE CARRé The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him...
JOHN LE CARRé The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous
JOHN LE CARRé Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
JOHN LE CARRé Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Ou...
JOHN LE CARRé You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school...
JOHN LE CARRé You should have died when I killed you.
JOHN LE CARRé We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa...
JOHN LE CARRé He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if...
JOHN LE CARRé It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
JOHN LE CARRé Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come.
JOHN LE CARRé When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He r...
JOHN LE CARRé Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
JOHN LE CARRé A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
JOHN LE CARRé Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
JOHN LE CARRé Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO I...
JOHN LE CARRé The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
JOHN LE CARRé I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking becau...
CARRE OTIS I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doc...
CARRE OTIS My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from t...
CARRE OTIS We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. O...
CARRE OTIS Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the une...
CARRE OTIS It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
CARRE OTIS Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
CARRE OTIS When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performi...
CARRE OTIS Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there...
CARRE OTIS I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather t...
CARRE OTIS Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role ...
CARRE OTIS The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get th...
CARRE OTIS Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially durin...
CARRE OTIS Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
CARRE OTIS I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
CARRE OTIS I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't w...
CARRE OTIS I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to la...
CARRE OTIS Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some peop...
CARRE OTIS In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope o...
CARRE OTIS My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make thei...
CARRE OTIS Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to...
CARRE OTIS But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there i...
CARRE OTIS My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acre...
CARRE OTIS I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn...
CARRE OTIS I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers...
CARRE OTIS While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similariti...
CARRE OTIS Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity an...
CARRE OTIS I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
CARRE OTIS Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems t...
CARRE OTIS The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
TAN LE I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
TAN LE ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput...
TAN LE You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmen...
TAN LE I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ...
TAN LE America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
LE SAGE Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc...
LE CORBUSIER A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
LE CORBUSIER Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc...
TAN LE Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...
LE CORBUSIER I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
LE CORBUSIER The home should be the treasure chest of living.
LE CORBUSIER A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe...
LE CORBUSIER It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ...
TAN LE There are three versions of things: the one you see in your mind, the one that carries onto the pape...
JENNIFER LE Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JENNIFER LE We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can im...
JENNIFER LE You follow the rules because you either care about them or you're scared of them.
JENNIFER LE The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab...
ALAN LE Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the autho...
JENNIFER LE The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel a...
LE CORBUSIER He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough ...
JENNIFER LE To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
LE CORBUSIER This new trend in our activities will open to all our partners, especially those come from these ter...
HELEN LE Now we don't have anything. We don't know what to do.
LIEM LE We thought when we evacuated it would be like before, a couple days and back.
LIEM LE French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
MARINE LE PEN The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has s...
MARINE LE PEN Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundame...
MARINE LE PEN There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a r...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I thin...
MARINE LE PEN They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's t...
MARINE LE PEN The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
MARINE LE PEN Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and...
MARINE LE PEN I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: te...
MARINE LE PEN I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy,...
MARINE LE PEN The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
LE ROI JONES The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
GUSTAVE LE BON The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
CLAUDE LE PETIT Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for the...
GUSTAVE LE BON The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste...
GUSTAVE LE BON Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the...
GUSTAVE LE BON Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
CAL LE MON People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptati...
EVA LE GALLIENNE Florida, is Gods waiting room.
GLENN LE GRICE Innovators are inevitably controversial.
EVA LE GALLIENNE The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries "Autumn once more begins today"-- ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.
GRAEME LE SAUX Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined ...
MARINE LE PEN My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: s...
AMBER LE BON The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obviou...
MARINE LE PEN Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling ba...
CHAD LE CLOS How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate fre...
MARINE LE PEN We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and cr...
GRAEME LE SAUX The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
MARINE LE PEN When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaig...
MARINE LE PEN Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
MARINE LE PEN Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I'm recognised, and I hear, 'That's Chad's...
CHAD LE CLOS I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldw...
CHAD LE CLOS I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't descr...
CHAD LE CLOS I'm all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don...
CHAD LE CLOS I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I...
AMBER LE BON When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Un...
MARINE LE PEN We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our value...
MARINE LE PEN Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atroc...
MARINE LE PEN Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.
MARINE LE PEN I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbar...
MARINE LE PEN Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, an...
MARINE LE PEN There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. ...
MARINE LE PEN It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children...
MARINE LE PEN Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]
MARTIN LE FRANC Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
MERIDEL LE SUEUR I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semi...
MARINE LE PEN