George Osborne Quotes

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Long
  • Fear

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Computers

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Feel
  • Problems
  • Discouraged

• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Dance

• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Woman
  • Write
  • Novel

• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Old
  • Innocent
  • Grow

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Great
  • Party
  • Popular

• Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Door

• Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come; . . .

  

  George Eliot
  • Trying
  • Evil

• I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Death

• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  

  George Osborne
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