I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda JacksonCompanies have to be wary of the fact that staff don't move on too quickly these days else the requisite knowledge base required to manage enough elements may be lost.
Howard GardnerI don't want to be awkward, but I've thought about this a lot, and all I want to say is in the statement. Me going out with Gabby from the Cheeky Girls is not a secret.
Lembit Opik'It's best to aim a bit forward of its location and try and anticipate where the fly will jump when it first sees your swatter [on fly swatting techniques!]
Michael DickinsonThe president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Sherrod BrownTo refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter UstinovToday has been an extremely emotional day, and has made me realise just how important
the campaign is to protect children in war [Portugal 2004]
Anders FriskAfter World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
Stella BlumI'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.
Andrew FlintoffI am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]
Paul BoatengPeople who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to' - to work for and hope for.
Maxwell MaltzThe Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
Walter BagehotI really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.
Peta WilsonWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E M ForsterIt is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it
Robert E LeeI warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
William BernbachAl Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Jay LenoThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
George PattonBe ready to come forward to pounce on any short returns and choose between a wrong-footing second shot back behind your opponent, or into the space.
Judy MurrayThe most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.
Blaise PascalThe tougher the job, the greater the reward.
George AllenNo, I'm not looking forward to playing Freddie again!
[on World Series games]
Brett LeeWar is the national industry of Prussia.
Comte De MirabeauPeople will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
Bill CosbyThe first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
Hiram JohnsonYesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'
Conan O'BrienIf Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.
Monty PanesarSo many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
Amanda BynesI 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]
John HowardAfterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin
John Le CarreIn war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston ChurchillOnce I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modelling.
Gabrielle ReeceBefore a second war starts in Iraq, the prime minister should apologise for the first one.
Sir Menzies CampbellMy team talk was very simple. I said: 'Let's just have an old-fashioned match, get the right result and go out for a few drinks afterwards'. It seemed to work better than all the tactical crap.
Ron AtkinsonToday Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess.
Jay LenoThe worst thing about playing Chelsea is having to listen to Mourinho afterwards
EdmilsonMarriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
VoltaireWar is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Georges ClemenceauThe man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard NixonA time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H G WellsI'm a bit disappointed for us. We've worked very hard this year and I think everybody who's watched the soap knows that. [on not winning a best soap award]
Kate FordCowards die many times before their deaths; The valient never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareThe vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.
John Nance GarnerI'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavour.
Ashleigh BanfieldThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George EliotPerhaps when you spend so much time rehearsing to get picked for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing it affects your memory [on Neil Warnock]
Sean BeanWar is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Lewis Mumford'Six months before he died, my grand-father came to Australia to try to explain to me that he was dying. I was a young kid, very much into myself at the time. I was busking on the streets just to make enough money to pay my rent, There was this Japanese restaurant I'd always wanted to eat at but couldn't afford, so I suggested we go there.' It was an unfortunate choice. In Weans' weakened condition, the smell of the rice and soya sauce brought back memories of the Second World War. 'We couldn't have the talk he wanted to,' says Crowe.
'The day he died, I was in the kitchen of a flat in Woollarah, (an eastern suburb of Sydney). 'Suddenly a kookaburra bird flew in the window. It just looked at me. I knew my grandfather had died. I phoned home and my mother confirmed it. 'I insisted the bird was my grandfather's spirit, but my mom would have nothing of it.'
One day last year, Crowe had a dream in which he was holding his mother and she was crying. He phoned home immediately.
'My mother said a woman who had worked closely with my grandfather had come to visit and, without prompting, had told her that on the day my grandfather died a bird had visited her as well. 'Learning this had reduced my mother to tears.'
Crowe says he believes that 'with all this talk of angels, maybe they are just birds sent to us by those who have crossed over.' Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Russell CrowePoliteness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean De La BruyereWe all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl Popper
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