Bevin Quotes & Sayings

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted. — Michael Foot

Life is only a dream and we are only the imagination of ourselves. — Bill Hicks

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. — Ernest Bevin

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out. — Ernest Bevin

I choose my own destiny. Nothing can stop me - not even StarClan. — Erin Hunter

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! — Ernest Bevin

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all. — Ernest Bevin

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it. — Richard Rohr

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. — Ernest Bevin

Ten feet to my left, Sadie smacked a vulture with her staff. The bird exploded into white sand. Annabeth jogged toward us, giving me one of those annoyed expressions like, If you get yourself killed, I'm going to murder you. Carter, being invisible, was nowhere to be seen. — Rick Riordan

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief. — Ernest Bevin

It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes. — Joe Pitkin

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it. — Ernest Bevin

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. — Ernest Bevin

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want. — Ken Follett

If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad — George Orwell

It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One — Joseph Bottum

You're so careful with me, Bevin murmured, awed.
That's because you're so precious to me, Tim replied — Savannah J. Frierson

Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration. — Ernest Bevin

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable. — Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet. — Ernest Bevin

But the best thing about Spain? Siestas. God bless any country that has decided yes, we shall shut down business and take a long nap in the middle of the day. How can you not love them for that? — Kristen Callihan

Her hot attire did not signify promiscuity - contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers - but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal — Aleksandar Hemon

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors ... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. — Conrad Hall

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. — Trevor Noah

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin

Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people ... wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake. — Billy Graham

The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London, — Donald L. Miller

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'. — Ernest Bevin

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree. — Ernest Bevin

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

By simply refusing to fund a president's unconstitutional conduct, Congress can stop him dead in his tracks - even after the courts have abdicated their responsibilities to do so. — Mike Lee

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality. — Ben Okri