“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
Chapter 10 (p. 180)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
BBC (1979); reported in John Blundell, Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady (2008), page 193.
First term as Prime Minister
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Christopher McDougall
(1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“If I only could
Be running up that hill
With no problems…”
Kate Bush
(1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
Bruce Schneier
(1963) American computer scientist
preface to 2015 edition of Secrets and Lies
Cryptography
Context: A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
John Connolly
(1968) author
Source: Nocturnes
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Margaret Thatcher
(1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
The last sentence is widely paraphrased as "The trouble/problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Leader of the Opposition
Variant: They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
Context: And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing... It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
“Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”
Paladin of Souls (2003)
Context: You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
p. 36
George Ritzer
(1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 5, Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Marxian Alternatives, p. 110