John Richard Reid famous quotes

It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
-- John Richard Reid

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We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.
-- John Richard Reid

#Opportunity #Healthy #Unseen

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
-- John Richard Reid

#Party #Views #Prime

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries
-- John Richard Reid

#Jobs #Views #Years

Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
-- John Richard Reid

#Technology #Systems And Processes #Purpose

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.