"I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections."

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Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 134), 1990.

Maurice Cowling

#Party Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.”
“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”
“Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.”
“Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.49, Image Continuum Press
“Call no man happy till he is dead.”

Source : "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
“When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.”
“Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop”
“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

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