The Last Metro Quotes & Sayings

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy - not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side. — Eric Hobsbawm

services as a tree trimmer.92 In the fall of 1975, while still promoting Cuckoo's Nest, Nicholson played a very small part in his pal Sam Spiegel's production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, based on the life of MGM wonder boy Irving Thalberg, who made Metro the dominant — Edward Douglas

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man. — Anonymous

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all. — Andy Rooney

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. — Ioan Gruffudd

If you close your eyes you see darkness, but if you keep them closed for long enough, you'll see light." -I've once said a similar quote like this to my friend only to realize it's from Skins. It is still my favourite quote until now. — Skins

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods, — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Drowning people often believe that if they grab hold of someone else they can be saved, but that just makes you both sink faster. — Clementine Von Radics

I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test. — Christina Engela