Des Browne Quotes

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

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• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Person
  • Calling
  • Journalist

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• I was a Girl Scout!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Scout

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • American
  • Positive
  • Legal

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • Future
  • Doing

• When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.

  

  Elena Satine
  • Up
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Society

• When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Time
  • Hand

• After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Military
  • Service
  • Patriotic

• My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Children
  • Why
  • She

• I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

  

  Des Browne
  • Service