Richard Mottram quotes

“In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.”
-- Richard Mottram

Source : "Sir Richard Mottram" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2002.

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“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”
-- Richard Mottram

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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“When you are in the future, the past looks different.”
-- Richard Mottram

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

“No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.”

“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”

“You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.”

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“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”