Richard Parks Bland Quotes

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.

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• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Words
  • Government
  • Military

• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Where

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Try
  • Sunday

• Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • House
  • Three

• Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • You
  • Focus
  • Customers

• For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Tragedy
  • Heartache

• Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Children
  • Why

• A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Celebrity

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.

  

  David Harewood
  • Parents

• I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.

  

  David Zinczenko
  • Kids

• I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Fly

• I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Think
  • Food

• The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Lost
  • College

• My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Friends
  • Twilight

• They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

  

  John Amos
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Made