There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
:::
Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Quote, Unquote
No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
:::
Quote, Unquote
Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
~ John le Carré
:::
Quote, Unquote
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
:::
Quote, Unquote
Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
~ Will Rogers
:::
Quote, Unquote
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
:::
Quote, Unquote
Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
~ John le Carré
:::
Quote, Unquote
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
:::
Quote, Unquote
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
:::
Quote, Unquote
You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
:::