And he is dead who will not fight; / And who dies fighting has increase.
JULIAN GRENFELL They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wa...
JOYCE GRENFELL Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
JOYCE GRENFELL I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giv...
JOYCE GRENFELL Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
WILFRED GRENFELL If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone spe...
JOYCE GRENFELL There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy
JOYCE GRENFELL The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
WILFRED GRENFELL There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
JOYCE GRENFELL Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night
JOYCE GRENFELL Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
SIR WILFRED GRENFELL Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILFRED T. GRENFELL The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, an...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwi...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is al...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL But all knowledge has to be won – like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL In 1883 while I was working at the London Hospital I chanced to turn in to one of D. L. Moody's grea...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious ...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery ...
JULIAN BARNES I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and po...
JULIAN ASSANGE But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, th...
JULIAN BOND If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
JULIAN ASSANGE I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about ...
JULIAN LENNON Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
JULIAN ASSANGE To rally every black sheep is my goal.
JULIAN COPE Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo...
JULIAN SANDS Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear brig...
JULIAN SCHNABEL The only way to stay competitive is offer something the market doesn't have.
AL JULIAN The employees are the ones who really make it work here.
AL JULIAN We're now competing with eastern Europe, China, Korea, competing with Turkey and competing with plac...
AL JULIAN The machines here have unique advantages over others in the market and you also see our prices are v...
AL JULIAN It's killing us. They've told us to run business as usual, but it's not that simple.
AL JULIAN That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhel...
JULIAN ASSANGE The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: ben...
JULIAN BAGGINI Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually...
JULIAN CASTRO Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.
JULIAN COPE Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we ...
JULIAN BAGGINI It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own ar...
JULIAN SCHNABEL To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...
JULIAN BARNES And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
JULIAN BARNES Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
JULIAN BARNES The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
JULIAN CLARY Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
JULIAN BARNES Quality is a proud and soaring thing.
JESSICA JULIAN Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex
JULIAN BARNES Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
JULIAN JAYNES I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
JULIAN FELLOWES What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities b...
JULIAN CASTRO To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic s...
JULIAN BARNES Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people ...
JULIAN LENNON During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and...
JULIAN ASSANGE And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolut...
JULIAN BOND I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold W...
JULIAN CASTRO I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we a...
JULIAN BARNES We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been ...
JULIAN ASSANGE In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don...
JULIAN CASTRO The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire t...
JULIAN CLARY Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav...
JULIAN ASSANGE WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corp...
JULIAN ASSANGE From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to ...
JULIAN BAGGINI In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
JULIAN ASSANGE Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
JULIAN ASSANGE First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran f...
JULIAN CASTRO Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
JULIAN BAGGINI The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the bes...
JULIAN ASSANGE I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pai...
JULIAN BAGGINI The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...
JULIAN ASSANGE There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel...
JULIAN FELLOWES Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet dif...
JULIAN BAGGINI Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees ...
JULIAN BARNES When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we tal...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings br...
PERCY JULIAN Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chance...
JULIAN BAGGINI We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand ...
JULIAN CASTRO I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns...
PERCY JULIAN No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to...
JULIAN BAGGINI In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do tha...
JULIAN ASSANGE Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obedi...
JULIAN BARNES I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that ...
JULIAN LENNON Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just...
JULIAN ASSANGE Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
JULIAN BOND The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is p...
JULIAN BAGGINI The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty an...
JULIAN BAGGINI Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing an...
JULIAN BAGGINI Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'...
JULIAN CASTRO Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deepl...
JULIAN BAGGINI As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the b...
JULIAN ASSANGE My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, ...
JULIAN CASTRO In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a...
JULIAN ROBERTSON Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.
JULIAN CASTRO It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice wha...
JULIAN BARNES Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people fr...
JULIAN BAGGINI Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
JULIAN CASABLANCAS I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time....
JULIAN BOND I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like t...
JULIAN LENNON What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
JULIAN BARNES I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors...
JULIAN FELLOWES I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
JULIAN FELLOWES If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical ab...
JULIAN BAGGINI Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the opti...
JULIAN BAGGINI How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I thi...
JULIAN BAGGINI You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
JULIAN BARNES We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular new...
JULIAN ASSANGE The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and s...
JULIAN CASTRO You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...
JULIAN BARNES My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not s...
JULIAN BARBOUR The prosperity of the United States and the prosperity of the Hispanic community, as the fastest-gro...
JULIAN CASTRO Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That...
JULIAN BAGGINI Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and wh...
JULIAN BAGGINI I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant o...
JULIAN BAGGINI If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth....
JULIAN SANDS And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action t...
JULIAN CASTRO All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is fa...
JULIAN SIMON The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depe...
JULIAN SIMON The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning o...
JULIAN SIMON The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...
JULIAN SIMON Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understa...
JULIAN SIMON It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long ru...
JULIAN SIMON Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavi...
JULIAN SIMON Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience giv...
JULIAN SIMON The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ...
JULIAN SIMON The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
JULIAN SIMON Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resour...
JULIAN SIMON ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in r...
JULIAN HUXLEY I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that
commitment, ... That is a commitment no...
JULIAN ALLEN So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind
waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not jus...
JULIAN ALLEN So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN Right now we are inundated with stuff,
JULIAN ALLEN By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand fra...
JULIAN ASSANGE Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British...
JULIAN BAGGINI Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
JULIAN ASSANGE My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
JULIAN ASSANGE Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as ...
JULIAN CASTRO The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to in...
JULIAN CASTRO Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquai...
JULIAN SIMON The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of u...
JULIAN SIMON Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induce...
JULIAN SIMON You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
JULIAN FELLOWES Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
JULIAN FELLOWES Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
JULIAN FELLOWES Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool.
JULIAN FELLOWES I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich ...
JULIAN FELLOWES War makes early risers of us all.
JULIAN FELLOWES It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
JULIAN FELLOWES In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh,...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I...
JULIAN CASTRO The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...
JULIAN BARNES I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitaria...
JULIAN LENNON Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subt...
JULIAN BARNES Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not u...
JULIAN BAGGINI As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline ...
JULIAN ASSANGE The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being j...
JULIAN BAGGINI When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were ...
JULIAN ASSANGE I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contempora...
JULIAN FELLOWES The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL