"The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions."

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Source : "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

David Lloyd George

#League Quotes #Armenia Quotes #Useless Quotes

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”
“If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms... We got some of the most amazing weather as well. It's maybe why some of these places, like the Lake District, don't get filmed in so much. If you were trying to make it look like some kind of chocolate box image of England you'd be there all year waiting for the sun to come out.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.”
“I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of”
“If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.”
“Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.”
“Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs”

Source : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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