Denis Healey Quotes

The Guardian (14 August 1981).

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• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Care
  • Say
  • Less

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Engage

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Rest

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • May
  • Journey

• Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Growth

• It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

  

  Avicii
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Inspired

• Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Different
  • Long
  • Model

• Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

  

  Anjelah Johnson

• My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Age
  • Reality

• I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.

  

  Darryl Glenn

• The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Long
  • Cool

• When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • School
  • Father
  • Summer

• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Today
  • Wish

• Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship—a language that transcends words.

  

  Dalia Sofer
  • World
  • Language
  • Anything

• We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Football
  • Red
  • Summer

• 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • World
  • Home
  • Father

• The Guardian (14 August 1981).

  

  Denis Healey
  • August