"I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now."

-- Frank Dobson

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Leader Quotes

“How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.”

Source : "Coco Rocha Responds To ‘Fat’ Flap: This Is A Moral Matter", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.
“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”

Source : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.
“The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.”
“I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books
“Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.”

Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins
“Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.”
“I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.”
“When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.”

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