John Major Quotes

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Politics

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Begin

• In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Love
  • Job
  • True

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Today

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Live
  • Think
  • Boy

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Accept
  • Ticket

• Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Moving

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

  

  David O. McKay
  • Work
  • Men
  • May

• I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

  

  John Major
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