“Well, no sense crying over unspilt blood,” the Prize Clerk said. “If we took full account of our eventualities, we’d soon run out of eventualities for us to take full account of.”
Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 3 (p. 23)
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“Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.”
Source: A Perfect Blood
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, "The Myth of Barter", p. 40
“And eventually we will make sense of it.”
<!-- [http://www.elainedundy.com/stranger.html DEAD LINK --> "A Stranger Comes to Town" (c. 2001)
Context: I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize that a single thread ran through them, that I'd used the same strategy to catch the reader's attention. It is the old Western movie gimmick: A Stranger Comes to Town. I am that Stranger. Together with the reader I will discover what's going on in that town whether it be Paris, London, New York, Sydney, Tupelo, Ferriday — or in a women's federal prison. And eventually we will make sense of it.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
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.
“The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.”
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, p. 287
“History is full of the accounts of those who imposed their absolute power against popular will.”
What History Tells Us, p. 8
History, What History Tells Us
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
