David Miliband Quotes

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

David Miliband

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Music
  • Future
  • Amazing

• I have a secret love of jazz.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
  • Secret
  • Jazz

• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Real
  • History
  • House

• The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Responsibility
  • Fighting
  • Police

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Idea

• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Fighting
  • Human
  • Cancer

• Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Military

• I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Idea
  • Prove
  • Tire

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She
  • High
  • Alone

• ’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’‘Oh, am I?’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • God
  • Help
  • Wonder

• I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Running
  • Fitness

• On the north side of the train the windows were plastered with snow, and on the south side great clouds of snow were whipped along by a sixty-mile gale. There was snow on top of the train and snow under the train, and all the snow there was left in the.

  

  Benedict Freedman
  • Snow
  • Train
  • Gale

• Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Give

• I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

  

  David Miliband