{"id":949,"date":"2013-09-01T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=949"},"modified":"2013-09-03T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T07:37:49","slug":"949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Peter Ustinov quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Ustinov, Peter (1921 – 2004), English actor & author<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.<\/p>\n

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.<\/i><\/p>\n

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.<\/i><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.<\/i><\/p>\n

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.<\/i><\/p>\n

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.<\/i><\/p>\n

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.<\/i><\/p>\n

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.<\/i><\/p>\n

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?<\/p>\n

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.<\/i><\/p>\n

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.<\/i><\/p>\n

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.<\/i><\/p>\n

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.<\/i><\/p>\n

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.<\/i><\/p>\n

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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