Lionel Blue Quotes

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

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• Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Compassion
  • Face
  • Everyone

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Model
  • Honor

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Family
  • Age
  • River

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God
  • Day
  • Thankful

• It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Career
  • Know
  • Simple

• I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Loved
  • Greatest
  • London

• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Religion

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  

  Barry White
  • Song
  • Story
  • Try

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Work
  • Education

• Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Time
  • Business
  • Small

• After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

  

  Maria Semple
  • Time
  • Work
  • Alone

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Happy
  • Small

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Education
  • Eyes

• All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sad
  • Hated
  • My Father

• For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

  

  Lionel Blue