David Miliband Quotes

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

David Miliband

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• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Friend
  • Things
  • Him

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Science
  • Beginning

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Positive

• I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Band

• Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Dance
  • Stage
  • Just Because

• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Die
  • Ideas
  • Will

• Purity Is obscurity.

  

  Ogden Nash

• The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men

• In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Attention
  • Single

• Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • History
  • Star

• The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • World
  • Small
  • Politics

• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  

  William Stewart Halsted
  • Patient
  • Surgeon
  • Retaliate

• It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

  

  Deborah Ann Woll
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

  

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

• Hillary Clinton isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Leader
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Organiser

• We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

  

  David Miliband