Ann Widdecombe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Jobs #Hunting #Doctors
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Years #Catholic #Church
The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Children #Abuse #Politics
In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Finals #Questions And Answers #Answers
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Vegetables #Looks #Use
I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Kings #Arms #Crosses
My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Cat #Garden
I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Terror #Firm
The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#War #Book #School

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
If I wasnt a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

Ann Widdecombe famous quotes

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