What did Robert Harris mean by: Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. - Robert Harris Author · England Copy
+ If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Death, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Currency, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ You can’t make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Make Sense, Past, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Hands, Luxury, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ Politics is never a victory, it’s just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Events, Victory, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Ashes, Career, Political, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
+ History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Harris, Events, 0 - Robert Harris Author · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
