Tony Blair Quotes
We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
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In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.
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I hate art auctions.
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
