BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html, transcript of the "First Month of War" speech https://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/churchills-ww2-speech-to-the-nation-october-1939/).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Context: I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
“Whoever said that Russia was an enigma inside a something-or-other inside something else, was dead right. I don't understand the place yet.”
Pictures of Russia. p. 176.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
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BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html, transcript of the "First Month of War" speech https://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/churchills-ww2-speech-to-the-nation-october-1939/).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“It's all right to make mistakes, you're only human
Inside everybody's hiding something.”
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Song lyrics, No Angel (1999)
“I just don't understand the need to name something "the best" or more better than something else.”
Barbara Walters interview
Context: I just don't understand the need to name something "the best" or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance — there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 276
“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”