Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

Jim Ratcliffe

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• Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Myself
  • Poetry
  • Now And Then

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Girlfriend

• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Chance
  • Season

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Human
  • Curious

• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • World
  • Peace
  • Child

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Room
  • Lot

• We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• There's nothing like success.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Success
  • Like
  • Nothing

• Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Management

• I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Lies

• Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heaven
  • Deep
  • Gold

• I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

  

  Ty Cobb
  • Proud

• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Feels

• I'm a fashion gal through and through.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Fashion

• God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Surrender

• I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.

  

  Steve Southerland
  • Man
  • Team
  • Player

• The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe