"The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean."

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Source : Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.

Gordon Brown

#Past Quotes #House Quotes #Transformation Quotes

“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.”
“The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.”
“You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.”

Source : Song: The World Moves On, Album: I Know What Love Isn't, 2012
“It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”
“For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.”
“I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.”
“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
“But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.”

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