My role is one of filling vacuums.

-Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)
  On his work with105 countries since leaving the White House. Broadcast on  ABC  TV,13 Dec.

It hasnovision, noforesight, nosight at all.If itcanbe said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. See Paley 635:16.

-Dawkins, Richard
  Of natural selection. The Blind Watchmaker, ch.1.

People always ask me the most ridiculous questions. They want to know,'Howdo you approach a role?' Well, Idon't know.Iapproach it by first saying yes, thengetting on with the bloody thing.

-Evans, Dame Edith
Attributed.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

-Greer, Germaine
  The Female Eunuch,'Soul:  Womanpower'.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall
The Mechanical Bride,'Magic that Changes Mood'.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

-Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)
  The Myth Makers,'Pasternak'.

If socialists lose sight of the central importance of social ownership of the means of production, they will cease, in a very real sense, to be socialists at all: they will subside into the role of well-intentioned, amiable, rootless, drifting social reformers.

-Strachey, (Evelyn) John
  Contemporary Capitalism.

You have played out your role.Go where you belong: to the dustheap of history.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  To the Mensheviks, at the first Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution. Quoted in A J P Taylor From the BoerWar to the ColdWar: Essays onTwentieth-Century Europe (1995), p.271.