85614 Quotes & Sayings

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom. — Golda Meir

Don't try to control the future," he would say. "Work on the one thing you can learn to control: your own responses. — Eknath Easwaran

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages. — William Morley Punshon

A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

And then the Turkish gendarmes and zaptieh went from Armenian house to Armenian house confiscating weapons or anything they thought might be one. If possible, the priest would come to warn each family that the gendarmes or the zaptieh were coming so they could prepare. The zaptieh knocked on Armenian doors any time of day or night, and they preferred coming at night. They came to the Kazanjians, and the Arslanians, and the Meugerditchians, and to the Hovsepians and Haroutiunians and to the Shekerlemedjians. And finally, they came to our house in the evening after dinner. Three men in dark brown uniforms walked into the foyer and through the courtyard and said to my mother that if she did not hand over every gun in the house, we would be killed. — Peter Balakian

I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them. — David Beckham

We have no plans to increase tax at all. — Tony Blair

I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. — C.S. Lewis