George Osborne Quotes

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

George Osborne

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• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Mother
  • Environment
  • Unique

• I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Long
  • Being
  • Run

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Sex
  • Last
  • Miserable

• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Positive
  • Rights
  • Election

• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Freedom
  • Color
  • Fight

• My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Culture
  • Uncle

• That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• You could try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay them. But, you won't take the sting out of these words before I say them.

  

  Eminem
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• In Africa, as you're being successful and doing things right, you're also creating a lot of enemies.

  

  Aliko Dangote

• 'This place ought never to have been dug up.'

  

  Edward VIII
  • Up

• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Christmas
  • Laughter
  • Neighbors

• More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs. It's going to create uncertainty.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Help

• Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

  

  Jonathan Krohn
  • Morning

• CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Rock
  • Represents
  • Tearing

• Most of us learn to trust, not because we’re noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don’t have any other choice.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Trust
  • Learn
  • Choice

• You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

  

  George Osborne