Margaret Beckett Quotes

I don't join or leave things lightly.

Margaret Beckett

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• When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Man
  • Myself

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Back
  • Argue

• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Europe
  • Magnificent

• I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Know
  • Me

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Hurt

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Red

• My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Artists
  • Shine

• I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

  

  Imelda May
  • Fashion
  • Better
  • Sorry

• Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Free
  • Travel

• A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

  

  Jack Vance

• It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • God

• I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Family
  • Job
  • Desire

• People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • People
  • Healing

• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Community

• Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

  

  Allan Sekula
  • Photography
  • Mastery
  • Threatens

• It seems like every game, we have chances to get on the board first but we're not capitalizing. We're firing blanks right now.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Game
  • Chances
  • Capitalizing

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Honestly, I have a decent sense of humour with people I am close to.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • People

• I don't join or leave things lightly.

  

  Margaret Beckett