David Blunkett Quotes
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
Quotes to Explore
-
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
-
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
-
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
-
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
-
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
-
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
-
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
-
Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
-
The world wants to like America.
-
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
-
I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
-
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
-
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
-
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
-
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
-
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
-
The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
-
Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
-
Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
-
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
-
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
-
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
