William E. Gladstone Quotes

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

William E. Gladstone

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• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Jump
  • Skin
  • Wood

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• My first car was a motorcycle.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Car
  • First
  • Motorcycle

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Encouragement

• Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Space

• Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Will
  • Muscles
  • Organs

• The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Quality

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Light
  • Reflection
  • White

• God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English

• If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Jump
  • Racism
  • Feet

• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Disorder
  • Swings
  • Manic

• The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Result
  • Parliament
  • Great Party

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Conversation
  • Notice
  • Listened

• The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

  

  Diogo Morgado
  • People
  • Best
  • Story

• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Constitution
  • British
  • Parliament