“It is only for those without hope that hope is given.”
“I'm here – but I haven't been given permission to drive.”
George Pascoe-Watson, "I wannabe No10 pilot", The Sun, 19 May 2006, p. 2.
Response to question by Sky News journalist "Do you like the feeling of being in the driving seat?" when in the Cockpit of an Airbus A380 on 18 May 2006.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Variant: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Zeno, 53.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics
“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”
Lini
(15 October 1994)
“War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
This is a quotation of Titus Livius IX:1 iustum enim est bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma ubi nulla in armis spes est) that Machiavelli uses in Ch. 24 of Discourses on Livy; Machiavelli similarly writes that "The justice of the cause is conspicuous; for that war is just which is necessary, and those arms are sacred from which we derive our only hope." (The Prince, Ch. 26)
Misattributed
“Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
