Andrew Lansley Quotes

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

Andrew Lansley

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
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  • Time
  • Long

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  

  Ina Garten
  • You
  • Everything
  • Nobody

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
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• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
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• First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Real
  • First
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• I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Hair

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • People
  • Strong
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• One should emulate works and deeds of virtue, not arguments about it.

  

  Democritus

• Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, and we'll save the Supreme Court.' Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Power
  • Democrats

• Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Power
  • Weapons
  • Orator

• Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Senior