Douglas Alexander Quotes

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

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• I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Honor
  • Down
  • Turn

• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• 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
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • World
  • High
  • Doing

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• 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
  • People
  • Grow
  • Aging

• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• 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
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Progress

• I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • Free
  • Immigration

• I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• '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
  • Long
  • Women
  • High

• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Lesson

• And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since and lost awhile.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Angel

• This year let's all come together, Congress, the White House, businesses from Wall Street to Main Street, to give every woman the opportunity she deserves, because I believe when women succeed, America succeeds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Women
  • She

• If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson

• Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Good
  • Business

• We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

  

  Douglas Alexander