Cowling Quotes & Sayings

I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought. — Colin Powell

True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying. — Natasha Lyonne

For he who has the audacity to determine who should live and who should die no longer serves the law but dictates the law. — Christopher Paolini

Parks scratches his neck. "Really? Even when she told me not to say?" She holds his gaze. "You let her go out there on her own. I already know damn well that you don't see a risk to Melanie as worth taking into account. But I do. And I want to know why you thought it was okay to send her out there." "You're wrong," Parks says. "Am I? About what?" "About me." He plants his butt against the opened cowling of the generator, folds his arms. "Okay, not that wrong. A couple of days ago, I said we should cut the kid loose. She pulled our irons out of the fire twice since then, and on top of that she's turned into a really good scout. I'd be sorry to lose her." Justineau — M.R. Carey

I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow. — Ciara

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics. — Maurice Cowling

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939 ... from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat. — Maurice Cowling

Giving opens the way for receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book ... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it. — Maurice Cowling

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If there is a class war-and there is-it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones. — Maurice Cowling

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans. — Maurice Cowling

Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me."
-Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely. — David Kirschner

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections. — Maurice Cowling