Quote by Lucy Powell

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sha

Summary

This quote suggests that the decision between a Labour government and a Tory (Conservative) government is causing people to think more critically about their voting choices. It implies that this particular election or political situation is creating clear distinctions or differences between the two parties, prompting individuals to ponder and evaluate the possible outcomes and implications of each party coming into power. In essence, it indicates that there is an increased urgency in making a thoughtful decision between the two options.

Topics

Government

By Lucy Powell

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If there is technological advance without social advance, th

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

Michael Harrington

Technology

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Learning

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world ma

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Friends

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

Katherine Mansfield

Suffering

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Anniversary

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Idea Essential

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he shou

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

History

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

Vice

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Poetry

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue w

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Lovers

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary for

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Humor

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.