"By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left."

-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Giving Quotes #Principles Quotes #May Quotes

“When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.”
“I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.”
“Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.”
“Investors don't like uncertainty.”
“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.”
“The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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