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

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• 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
  • Small
  • 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
  • Stupid

• 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

• But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Same
  • Crew

• 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

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Focus
  • Band

• 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

• Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Hair

• 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 thought to myself, 'This is Harvard', You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is - what could be better? I loved it.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Ability
  • Exist
  • Bank

• Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Hope

• 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