Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

I think there is a strong reason for having PR as the method of election to the House of Lords because I do not think anyone would want to reproduce the House of Commons of the day in the second Chamber.

Alec Douglas-Home

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• I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Man
  • See

• The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Country
  • Age
  • Professional

• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Girly

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

  

  Flume
  • Fun
  • Voice
  • Explore

• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Name
  • Blood
  • Differences

• It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Small
  • Kind

• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Nature
  • Secret
  • Angels

• Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Faith
  • Reason

• The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Reason
  • Goal

• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Choice

• I think there is a strong reason for having PR as the method of election to the House of Lords because I do not think anyone would want to reproduce the House of Commons of the day in the second Chamber.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Reason
  • Election
  • House Of Lords