Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.