Profumo Quotes

#1. Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Jamais Cascio

#2. So give up waiting as a state of mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

Jacki Weaver

#4. For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

Camille Paglia

#5. Successful films are very dangerous things.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#6. He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

V.S. Carnes

#7. The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.

Ian McKellen

#8. What are you working on?" Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: "I'm having a hard time; I'm preparing my next mistake.

Bertolt Brecht

#9. Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean - his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation.

Karen Hawkins

#10. We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

Paul Eluard