Ernest Bevin Quotes

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Ernest Bevin

• Hope
• Belief
• Generosity
• Sinking

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
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  • Know

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
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• Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Success
  • Washington
  • Often

• If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Lost
  • Completely
  • Racetrack

• Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Watching

• And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

  

  Stevie Wonder

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

  

  Fred Hammond
  • Music
  • May
  • Help

• One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of knowledge around beauty, is totally okay. And not just okay, but actually really valuable.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Knowledge

• I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Forever
  • Door

• Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

  

  David Rusenko
  • Garden

• I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Career
  • Free

• I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Live
  • Canvas
  • Nude

• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photography

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Hope
  • Father

• It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Generosity