Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien
You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Quentin Blake
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
Elliott Abrams
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
Honore de Balzac
That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
Fred Armisen
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
