History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Never say 'no' to adventures.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania... is as priceless as genius.
It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace
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