Francis Maude Quotes

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

Francis Maude

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• A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • End
  • Rose

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Great
  • Man

• The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Beach
  • Rose
  • Desk

• I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gun
  • Rose

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Hope
  • Morning
  • Tears

• Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Rose
  • Lust

• The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.It explained a lot of things.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Rose

• I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it, And sprawled around, no longer wild.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Rose

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• They darted down and rose up like a waveOr buzzed impetuously as before;One would have thought the corpse was held a slaveTo living by the life it bore!

  

  Allen Tate
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rose

• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Rain

• The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • American

• The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

  

  Kevin Bleyer

• Electricity generation still around 25 percent below war levels, and transmission undermined by looting and sabotage.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Generation
  • Transmission

• Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

  

  Francis Maude
  • Rose