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'Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.'
View quotes by Ewan McGregor

I was taking the p*ss when I said I had a w*nk to celebrate out album going to Number 1 in 27 countries.
View quotes by Liam Howlett

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it (Fireflies, 1928)
View quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

The Times has made many ministries (The English Constitution, I)
View quotes by Walter Bagehot

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands.
View quotes by George Borrow

He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries before his own.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Overbury

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Maxims
View quotes by Publilius Syrus

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
View quotes by Kofi Annan

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
View quotes by Nelson Mandela

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest
obstruction; you do it yourselves. [Said Africa should ignore its £109 billion debt to
developed countries!]
View quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

They should go back home and re-create their countries which we have freed from tyranny, whether it is Kosovo or now Afghanistan. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young men in their twenties who do not.
View quotes by David Blunkett

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
View quotes by Paul Dirac

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
View quotes by D H Lawrence

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
View quotes by Denis Diderot

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

View quotes by E B White

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.
View quotes by Jack Handy

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
View quotes by Michael Moore

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
View quotes by Lakshmi Mittal

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
View quotes by Larry Summers

A pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
View quotes by Alvin Dark

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

We kept the ball away from contact and scored some great tries [hammering Scotland, 6 Nations 2005]
View quotes by Mike Ruddock

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
View quotes by Jim Morrison

The atmosphere is very strange for all of us. Germans and Italians feel very connected to the Pope, as many other countries do. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Michael Schumacher

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. [on the London terror attacks, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Jan Peter Balkenende

The response to these inhumane crimes wherever they take place - be it London, New York, Moscow or other countries - should be absolute condemnation.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
[on the London terrorist attack, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Vladimir Putin

I express my horror and disgust at this cowardly attack on innocent people. These sorts of attacks will not alter the determination of free countries to do the right thing. [on the London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by John Howard



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