Lord Melbourne Quotes

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

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• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Well
  • My Time

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • World
  • Know

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Home
  • Feel
  • India

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• Everyone is going to die.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Everyone
  • Going

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Women
  • Proud
  • Like

• Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Sides

• I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Years

• In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Years

• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • May
  • True

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional
  • Survival

• I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Black
  • Chocolate

• My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Up
  • True

• I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

  

  James Belushi
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Dad

• A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

  

  E. W. Scripps
  • World

• Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Success
  • Science
  • Culture

• The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

  

  Lord Melbourne