Bobby Charlton Quotes

Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

Bobby Charlton

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• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Women
  • Government
  • Equality

• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Leave
  • Lead

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Beauty

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Country
  • You
  • Feelings

• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Moving
  • Direction
  • Turn

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • City
  • New York

• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Either

• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Understand

• I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Water

• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Men often become nonviolent in societies that (1) have adequate amounts of food, (2) have adequate amounts of water, and (3) perceive themselves as isolated from attack. For example, the Tahitian men, the Minoan men on Crete, and the Central Malaysian Semai were nonviolent during the period in their history when all three of these conditions prevailed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • History
  • Food

• This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

  

  Bobby Charlton
  • Gun
  • Impressed
  • Tottenham