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That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.
George Best

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuble argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, travelling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.
Paul Crouch

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
Franz Boas

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.
Dave Allen

I tried to order some [contamination-free supplements] but didn't receive any and I haven't got any yet.
Greg Rusedski

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher

Beyond its entertainment value, 'Baywatch' has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has had such a significance for so many.
David Hasselhoff

I will always treasure the four years I spent working with President Bush and the wonderful men and women of the department. I think we accomplished a great deal.
Colin Powell

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Lewis Tappan

Right now, I'm writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
Anita Diament

I tend to just completely consume the men that I love. I'm such a romantic. I want to shower my man with attention and every kind of gift. I tend to lose myself in somebody because I think that’s the best thing about being in love really being in love. I tend to overdo it
Pamela Anderson

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel De Cervantes

In a truly spiritual moment, you can feel the very presence of God within you and a sense of joy, peace and elation unlike any earthly experience.
Saint Gregory

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Baby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Elizabeth Adamson

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Owen Feltham

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John Dewey

The thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is absolutely barmy.
Denis MacShane

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement.
Richard J Daley

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Frederick Faber

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
Charles Dickens

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

'Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?'
Marie Antoinette

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)
Dwight Eisenhower

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

The difference last year was so small - it was a symbolic gesture for the last couple of years - but finally the club have realised it's not worth the effort to maintain it [on equal prize money for men and women at Wimbledon]
Peter Fleming

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Herman Melville

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal.
Alain Badiou

We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
Jose Mourinho

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves
Gene Fowler

On supermodels: I don't let those women anywhere with me. I'm very selfish, and I hold myself in the highest regard.
Lara Flynn Boyle

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold,
The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold
Richard Hovey

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Paul Valery

A good professor is a bastard perverse enough to think what he thinks is important, not what government thinks is important.
Edward C Banfield

One can judge a civilisation by the way it treats its women.
Helen Foster Snow

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel [on retirement]
Andre Agassi

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Jean Paul Richter

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil

To win a Grand Slam in any kind of department - singles, doubles or mixed - it's great, and it's a great pleasure.
Katarina Srebotnik

The true measure of a man is not the number of servants he has, but the number of men he serves.
Arnold Glasgow



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