Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.
Quotes to Explore
-
My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
-
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
-
I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
-
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
-
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
-
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
-
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
-
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
-
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
-
I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
-
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
-
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
-
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
-
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
-
Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
-
To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
-
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
-
Life is noise.
-
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
-
Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
-
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
-
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
-
The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.
