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“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]”
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“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
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“My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.”
Source : "Alastair Campbell: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.
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“Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in.”
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“A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.”
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“The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.”
Source : Source: sojo.net
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“Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.”
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“I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.”
Source : "Toronto mayor denies smoking crack, questions scandalous video's veracity" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2013.