Famous Touchstone Quotes & Sayings

What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy. — George F. R. Ellis

You failed her when you turned your back on what you are. — Poppet

The greatest crime is to do nothing because we can only do a little ( ... ) I feel nothing, because feeling is subversive and contrary to military discipline. Therefore I do not feel, but I fight and therefore I exist. (part I, chapter 10) — John Le Carre

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth. — Warren Buffett

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly. — Arthur Lydiard

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity. — Carlos Castaneda

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor. — Carey Mulligan

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance. — Timothy Zahn

The people who are right a lot often change their minds. — Jeff Bezos

We can all be hurt. — Mary Balogh

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile. — Roderick Murchison

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial. — Clive Sinclair