Jonathan Aitken Quotes

#1. A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it ...

Andrew Solomon

#2. As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Jonathan Aitken

#3. Maybe she thought of me as a homing pigeon in human form, knowing that I would return, even if I didn't know why.

Bain Taylor

#4. But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

#5. I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

Denis Leary

#6. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

#7. If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

Jonathan Aitken

#8. Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Jonathan Aitken

#9. Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride

Jonathan Aitken

#10. I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

Jonathan Aitken

#11. Eventually, the sun will rise, I'll have to bleed with my butterfly brothers, and the rest of the world will get to see my blue ink, not just you. But here's the thing," he says. "I may bleed every single day for the world, but I bleed the most for you.

Nikki Godwin

#12. Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

#13. If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

Jonathan Aitken

#14. The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Cory Booker

#15. Sometimes the best way to love someone is to let them go

Romina Russell

#16. He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?

Catherynne M Valente

#17. Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Tennessee Williams

#18. Christianity on HP - Buy now, Pray later

Jonathan Aitken

#19. All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Pericles

#20. It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

Marianne Williamson

#21. Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

Royal Robbins