Colquhoun And Colquhoun Quotes & Sayings

From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance. — Charles Tilly

10 East 53rd Street — Bernard Cornwell

If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything — Sunday Adelaja

What can't be cured must be endured. — Pat Mills

Angel, who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ... — Pat Mills

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning. — Tim Field

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me. — B.B. King

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson

The Bardic robe..disguises imperfections of figure: round shoulders, bosoms of unmodish size or shape...too-insistent buttocks, knock knees and bandy legs, all are mitigated in the merciful folds of the robe...but whatever the type of robe --soutane, sari, academic gown or Bardic wrap -- its effect is often destroyed by disillusioning shoes. — Ithell Colquhoun

Poverty . . . is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation," the Scottish merchant and statistician Patrick Colquhoun, turned London magistrate, said in 1806, ironically in an argument for raising people from destitution and misery to mere poverty. "It is the lot of man - it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth."113 And weren't the poor resentful that they could not eat rich meats, sauces, and sweets and dubious about the rule that each rank in society needed a distinct diet? — Rachel Laudan

When we lose someone we love, suddenly nothing fits anymore. Who we thought we were is now a jumbled mess of memories and hopes we once had, for a future that now looks completely different. When we lose someone close to us we are forced to reevaluate our entire identities. We must figure out who we are now that this person is gone, and the experience can be overwhelming. — Claire Bidwell Smith

The food industry has led us to believe that its products are going to make us healthy, happy, sexy, and young. These promises are as empty as the food and drinks they're trying to sell us. The truth is we've never been fatter or in worse health. — James Colquhoun

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged. — John Updike

Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap! — Pat Mills

At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn't seem to be getting any better at goalkeeping. — Ian Colquhoun

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love. — Deepak Chopra