"Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story."

-- Anthony Holden

#Cities Quotes #Views Quotes #Dying Quotes

“The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Source : Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190
“If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?”
“I watch TV all the time. Everything.”
“You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; itâ€™s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; itâ€™s mountaineering; itâ€™s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you donâ€™t manage it”
“I never thought I could win the French Open.”

Source : "Li Na of China keeps feet on ground after historic French Open victory" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.
“In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.”

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