Ernest Bevin Quotes

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Ernest Bevin

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• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Lassie

• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Quiet

• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Substitute

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • World
  • Men

• If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Strong
  • Hand

• God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • World
  • God
  • True

• There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Worry

• I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

  

  Debra Winger
  • People
  • Weird

• I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

  

  Shania Twain

• Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

  

  John Oliver
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Good

• People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Time
  • Free

• I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

  

  Autumn Reeser
  • House
  • Transformation

• Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.

  

  John Keats
  • Men
  • Sad

• Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Fans
  • Songs

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate

• I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

  

  Marc Bolan T. Rex
  • Music
  • Serious

• I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Way
  • Team

• Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Humanity
  • Common Sense
  • Foreign Policy