"It's as if people used the invention of……" — John Lanchester
"It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving."
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John Lanchester
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14 Quotes by John Lanchester
John Lanchester has 14 quotes on this site.
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Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of…
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as…
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as…
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The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a…
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new…
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We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was…
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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing…
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More Belts Quotes
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.
— Tom Brady
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you…
— Julia Cameron
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else.…
— Drew Carey
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to…
— John le Carre
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
— Muhammad Ali
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some…
— Chris Christie
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make…
— Nick Clegg
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(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of…
— Trey Hardee
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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