If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
William Robertson Smith
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
Joe Frazier
They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
Louis Farrakhan
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
James McAvoy
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
Frank Bruno
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
Brit Marling
I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.
Rob Brydon
I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
Mitch Hedberg
I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.
Leelee Sobieski
Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.
Fernanda Bartolme
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
Michael J. Fox
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Bruce Barton
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
Eric Ries
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
Eric Holder
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
Werner Herzog
When you're through changing, you're through.
There are some things you only learn through experience.
Joe Namath
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
David Schwimmer
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