Nigel Rees Quotes

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Better
  • Over
  • Overlooked

• I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • King

• If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Universe
  • Acceptance

• You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

  

  Maimonides
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Opinion

• Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Success
  • Winning

• One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

  

  Anne Hutchinson
  • May
  • Truth

• It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Cold

• The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk

• I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Success

• Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good

• When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• I don't feel that much fear.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Fear

• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Relationship
  • Gentleman

• They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?

  

  Kai Greene
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Workout

• The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • History
  • Secret
  • Existence

• Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Great
  • Men
  • Book

• 1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Words

• You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

  

  Nigel Rees
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