As quoted in Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996) by John L. Mason
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
“If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [ sic] darn shortcut you can.”
[199709241628.JAA08908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Anyone who wants to tackle corruption must be willing to go all the way. There are no shortcuts.”
Source: https://voices.transparency.org/10-quotes-about-corruption-and-transparency-vol-2-802020c68574 Talks on Corruption and Transparency International.
“It is a really important place to not go, if we can not go there in any way, shape or form.”
On attacking Iran, Washington, D.C., July 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8139655.stm
“Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.”
October 12, 1779
On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the English traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland http://books.google.ie/books?id=ujpIAAAAMAAJ, p. 157
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary
“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.”
Variant: The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
