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“A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.”
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“Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.”
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“Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.”
Source : "Bob McDonnell corruption trial: the failure of a 'traditional American family'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2014.
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“The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.”
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“Beware of what you want-for you will get it.”
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“I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.”
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“For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.”
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“From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.”
Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press