#utterly

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#become #clear #complicated #contained #fight

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#bond #boring #classified #even #great

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#completely #every #go #i #learned

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#die #life #must #order #utterly

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. ↗

— Max Muller

#around #dark #feel #feeling #forgotten

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire