Douglas Alexander Quotes
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
Douglas Alexander
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
-
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
Gabourey Sidibe
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson
-
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan
-
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
S. Jay Olshansky
-
It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
Barbara Hepworth
-
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara W. Tuchman
-
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
Aga Khan IV
-
I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
-
'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner
-
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
Anton Chekhov
-
When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.
Jimmy Smits
-
I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.
Kirsten Gillibrand
-
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun
-
I write in character a lot.
Mark Foster
Foster the People
-
If I was to become an icon, then I'd be very happy. I'll need to score a lot of goals, and the team will need to pick up trophies, though.
Anthony Martial
-
I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
Jerry O'Connell
