George Osborne Quotes

I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

George Osborne

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• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Profit
  • Industries

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Government
  • Now
  • Censorship

• Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Virtues
  • Call

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • True
  • Yourself

• I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Single
  • Regret

• Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rest
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• 'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth
  • History
  • Fire

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• The telephone companies that were alleged to have helped their country after 9/11 did so because they are patriotic and they certainly helped us and they helped us save lives.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Patriotic

• No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • She

• All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Truth

• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  

  Albert Pike
  • World
  • Done
  • Alone

• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Realities

• The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

  

  Ed Buckner
  • Jesus
  • Creation
  • Possess

• My lifetime listens to yours.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Marriage
  • Lifetime

• My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Lives
  • Spend
  • Quite

• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

  

  George Osborne