Robert Walpole Quotes

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

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• I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar
  • History
  • Dream
  • Peace

• I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

  

  William P. Young
  • People
  • Father
  • Mean

• There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Horse
  • Flying
  • Huge

• I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Ends

• You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.

  

  Jon Huertas
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Television

• I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Listening

• In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kids
  • Interesting
  • President

• People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

  

  Noel Fielding
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Drugs

• He got off the mark with such an emphatic stroke and it just went on and on from there. I'm quite happy to sit under the cloud of Andrew Symonds and watch him go the way I know he can go.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Happy
  • Emphatic
  • Andrew Symonds

• There were guys in wingtips that just didn't fly.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Fly
  • Guys
  • Wing-Tips

• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Together
  • Enough
  • Conversation

• Women today are the biggest pigs today in history. They are just the dirtiest, nastiest slobs. I don't know how old your chick is, but the truth of the matter is they've become the aggressors. You know? They're upset if you're not balls deep in them by half way through the first date! They think you don't like them.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Women
  • History
  • First Date

• All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Labor
  • Barbarism
  • Trades

• We become what we contemplate.

  

  Plato
  • Become
  • Contemplate

• Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Beautiful
  • Frustrating

• Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

  

  George Washington
  • Remember
  • Danger
  • Occasions

• People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.

  

  W. T. Cosgrave
  • People
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Expenses
  • Preventing
  • Abolition