Ann Widdecombe Quotes

I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.

Ann Widdecombe

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Long
  • Learn
  • Animals

• When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Know
  • Desire

• When luck ain't with you it's against you.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Luck
  • Against

• You cannot experience the death of anybody

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Experience
  • Death

• Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Cases
  • Will Of God
  • Contending

• What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • Eternity

• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Pain
  • Delight
  • Vain

• Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Barriers
  • Wage
  • Union Organization

• We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

  

  John Calvin
  • Men
  • Beauty
  • Faults

• But you can't make someone be something they're not.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Something
  • Someone

• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Caring
  • Bet
  • Stimulation

• Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Control
  • Contradict
  • Disrespectful

• The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Holy Spirit
  • Unites

• I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Drama
  • Warrior
  • Terrorist

• One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Artist
  • Easy

• I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Holy Spirit
  • Bet
  • Disrespectful