Michael Foot Quotes

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

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• When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Democracy
  • Morality
  • Without

• As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Future
  • Earth

• I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Peace

• Cleverness is not wisdom.

  

  Euripides
  • Wisdom
  • Cleverness

• So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • True
  • Appears
  • Uncustomary

• I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Pressure
  • I Know

• He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Stroke

• I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Wonder
  • Destiny
  • Weapons

• Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

  

  Adrian Bell
  • School
  • Feel
  • Sport

• Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

  

  Chad Pennington
  • Fun
  • Perfect
  • Stress

• You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

  

  Billie Letts
  • Think
  • Death
  • Anniversary

• Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mediocrity
  • Ambitious

• A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Nature
  • Talent
  • Love Of Labor

• If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good."

  

  James Jackson Toth
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Write Songs

• He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Rising
  • Passed
  • Statesman