"When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important."

-- James Dyson

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.”
“Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.”
“I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.”
“Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.”
“We never had any silk sheets in our family...”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 96), 1975.
“Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.”

Source : "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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