Ah well, there you go. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken." Major Pettigrew
Helen SimonsonOh, it's simple pragmatism, Dad. It's called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half and the good guys like us would end up poor. Then where would we all be?" said Roger. "On a nice dry spit of land know as the moral high ground?" suggested the Major.
Helen SimonsonThe world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think
Helen SimonsonThe age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.
Helen SimonsonAmerica wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.
Helen SimonsonLook here, it's all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white.....It's a particular passion of young men eager to sweep away their dusty elders. However, philosophical rigidity is usually combined with a complete lack of education or real-world experience, and it is often augmented with strange haircuts and an aversion to bathing.
Helen SimonsonPassion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.
Helen Simonson...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Helen SimonsonMots clés philosophy
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
Helen SimonsonMots clés relationships
She looked at him and he read in her eyes a disappointment that he should have stooped to the dead relative excuse. Yet he was as entitled as the next man to use it. People did it all the time; it was understood that there was a defined window of availability beginning a decent few days after a funeral and continuing for no more than a couple of months. Of course, some people took dreadful advantage and a year later were still hauling around their dead relatives on their backs, showing them off to explain late tax payments and missed dentist appointments: something he would never do.
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