John Major Quotes

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Fashion

• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffer

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Voice
  • Difficult
  • Really

• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

  

  Jim Carter
  • Live
  • Family
  • Home

• I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• [However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

  

  William Styron
  • Trying
  • War
  • Walking

• I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

  

  John Major
  • Deep
  • Walking