Thunderball (Primary source)
Thunderball is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, centering on a high-stakes nuclear blackmail plot by the terrorist organization SPECTRE.
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.”
— Ian Fleming Primary sourceThis case isn’t ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is “live and let live”.
Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter.
“In my job,” he said, “when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It’s ‘live and let die’.”
“Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn’t mean that they’ll be careful with the secrets of yours.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source