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

• 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

• The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

  

  Adeline Yen Mah
  • Future
  • Change
  • Destiny

• Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Gospel
  • Testify
  • Holy Places

• There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.

  

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Forces

• Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Beauty
  • Greek
  • Deities

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

  

  Michael Foot
  • Rising
  • Passed
  • Statesman