"Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence."

-- Aneurin Bevan

#Political Quotes #Listening Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.”
“I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”
“Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.”

Source : Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7
“If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?”
“Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.”
“Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?”
“The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!”

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