John le Carré quote: "We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."<br />"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous
JOHN LE CARRé

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Ou...
JOHN LE CARRé

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
JOHN LE CARRé

Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come.
JOHN LE CARRé

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...
JOHN LE CARRé

All men are born free: just not for long.
JOHN LE CARRé

The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him...
JOHN LE CARRé

When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He r...
JOHN LE CARRé

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...
JOHN LE CARRé

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce...
JOHN LE CARRé

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has on...
JOHN LE CARRé

It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
JOHN LE CARRé

He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if...
JOHN LE CARRé

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
JOHN LE CARRé

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...
JOHN LE CARRé

You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school...
JOHN LE CARRé

You should have died when I killed you.
JOHN LE CARRé

Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
JOHN LE CARRé

Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO I...
JOHN LE CARRé

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
JOHN LE CARRé

It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths i...
JOHN LE CARRé

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
JOHN LE CARRé

This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at ...
JOHN LE CARRé

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
JOHN LE CARRé

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
JOHN LE CARRé

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARR

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through brib...
JOHN LE CARRE

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be ...
JOHN LE CARRE

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
JOHN LE CARRE

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son...
JOHN LE CARRE

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were de...
JOHN LE CARRE

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must...
JOHN LE CARRE

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in ...
JOHN LE CARRE

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron...
JOHN LE CARRE

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h...
JOHN LE CARRE

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and hi...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
JOHN LE CARRE

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you...
JOHN LE CARRE

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody inv...
JOHN LE CARRE

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
JOHN LE CARRE

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end...
JOHN LE CARRE

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic...
JOHN LE CARRE

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public...
JOHN LE CARRE

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that eve...
JOHN LE CARRE

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
JOHN LE CARRE

The spy who came in from the cold.
JOHN LE CARRE

We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.
JOHN LE CARRE

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARRE

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...
JOHN LE CARRE

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonst...
JOHN LE CARRE

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared persona...
JOHN LE CARRE

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret S...
JOHN LE CARRE

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
JOHN LE CARRE

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, sna...
JOHN LE CARRE

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to st...
JOHN LE CARRE

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
JOHN LE CARRE

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average read...
JOHN LE CARRE

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
JOHN LE CARRE

When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the ri...
JOHN LE CARRE

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LE CARRE

A committee is an animal with four back legs.
JOHN LE CARRE

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions ...
JOHN LE CARRE

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
JOHN LE CARRE

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey a...
JOHN LE CARRE

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin ...
JOHN LE CARRE

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on t...
JOHN LE CARRE

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a...
JOHN LE CARRE

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ...
JOHN LE CARRE

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that al...
JOHN LE CARRE

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a ...
JOHN LE CARRE

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success,...
JOHN LE CARR

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
JOHN LE CARRE

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
JOHN LE CARRE

You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we ...
JOHN LE CARR

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...
JOHN LE CARRE

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LE CARRE

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romant...
JOHN LE CARRE

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
JOHN LE CARRE

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualific...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and mo...
JOHN LE CARRE

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
JOHN LE CARRE

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
JOHN LE CARRE

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but...
JOHN LE CARRE

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
LE CORBUSIER

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
TAN LE

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput...
TAN LE

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmen...
TAN LE

Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JENNIFER LE

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough ...
JENNIFER LE

A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ...
TAN LE

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe...
LE CORBUSIER

When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the autho...
JENNIFER LE

The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel a...
LE CORBUSIER

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can im...
JENNIFER LE

You follow the rules because you either care about them or you're scared of them.
JENNIFER LE

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc...
LE CORBUSIER

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
LE CORBUSIER

There are three versions of things: the one you see in your mind, the one that carries onto the pape...
JENNIFER LE

This new trend in our activities will open to all our partners, especially those come from these ter...
HELEN LE

Now we don't have anything. We don't know what to do.
LIEM LE

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ...
TAN LE

The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
LE SAGE

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER

The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab...
ALAN LE

America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc...
TAN LE

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...
LE CORBUSIER

The home should be the treasure chest of living.
LE CORBUSIER

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
TAN LE

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
LE CORBUSIER

We thought when we evacuated it would be like before, a couple days and back.
LIEM LE

It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
CAL LE MON

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs...
JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT

Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries "Autumn once more begins today"-- ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children...
MARINE LE PEN

When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Un...
MARINE LE PEN

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she an...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard m...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

To oppose something is to maintain it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
MARINE LE PEN

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and cr...
GRAEME LE SAUX

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, hi...
EDA J. LE SHAN

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
LE ROI JONES

I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I thin...
MARINE LE PEN

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
MARINE LE PEN

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Arroyo continues to outmaneuver her political opposition. The various opposition factions were unabl...
ADAM LE MESURIER

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as ag...
MARION MARECHAL-LE PEN

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to ideal...
CHARLOTTE LE BON

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the sit...
MARINE LE PEN

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can...
MARINE LE PEN

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms ...
MARINE LE PEN

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely r...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so g...
LESLIE LE MON

Flik's Fun Fair: Whether or not you have little ones, take a few moments to stroll through this whim...
LESLIE LE MON

No child has ever been kidnapped from Disneyland. This is one of many Disneyland urban legends that ...
LESLIE LE MON

Standing 89 feet high, the Carthay Circle Theatre is actually taller than Sleeping Beauty Castle.
LESLIE LE MON

To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.
LESLIE LE MON

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and go...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

This is the last hurrah for the current architecture. The next version of Microsoft's consumer opera...
CHRIS LE TOCQ

Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready t...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal vict...
MARINE LE PEN

In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking...
JEREMY LE SUEUR

There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the
darkness, and they do not come back. The place they...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up...
AMBER LE BON

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up you...
GRAEME LE SAUX

There must be darkness to see the stars.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a regi...
MARION MARECHAL-LE PEN

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I wr...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

I succumbed to hedonism.
SIMON LE BON

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flower...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
URSULA K. LE GUIN

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity ha...
JAMIE LE FAY

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are inn...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibi...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it h...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendi...
JAMIE LE FAY

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that di...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

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We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

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We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.