Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

Alec Douglas-Home

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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Voice

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Think

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Technology
  • Only

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of 'Battered Woman Syndrome.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Husband
  • Rain
  • Prince

• It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rain
  • Blood
  • Fallen

• Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Heaven
  • Rain
  • Cricket