Favourite Quotes

Favourite quotations

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." Winston Churchill "I reject the notion that Scargill is leading some crusade against Thatcherite Toryism. Beneath the rhetoric Scargillism and Thatcherism are political allies. I would put it this way: the political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers." Jimmy Reid. ... Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell "The difference between me and Abolqader was that I spoke to my wife with refinement and he spoke to her coarsely and violently, I took a shower once a day and he took one once a month, I didn't even eat spring onions and he ate onions and garlic and radishes by the kilo, I read her poetry by Sa'di and he belched at her...and so in my wife's eyes I was stupid and he was clever, I was an idiot and he was intelligent. I was coarse and he was refined...But apparently he was a very good traveller.." Asadollah Mirza (from My Uncle Napoleon). We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. Nelson Mandela. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. Pope Benedict XVI I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. Nelson Mandela A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. Neil Kinnock A boy's best friend is his mother - Norman Bates I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde Made it, Ma! Top of the world! - Cody Jarrett I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. Gordon Brown All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell And how can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind ? (from The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter) There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/norman_mailer_2.html#mmVTqp8KOJBI4jdr.99