Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  • Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

  • I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

  • I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

  • I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

  • It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

  • Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.

  • The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

  • My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

  • plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.