"I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak"

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Source : "Inside the Private world of Ian Hislop". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2012.

Ian Hislop

#Trying Quotes #Belief Quotes #Weak Quotes

“When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“I love that magazine, man - Victoria's Secret - and it comes, like, every three hours.”
“I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.”

Source : "Nneka: Neo-Soulful Voice of Nigeria". Interview with Ebony, www.ebony.com. June 24, 2015.
“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”
“Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.”
“Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.”
“Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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