Delors Commission Quotes & Sayings

She doesn't look back as we round the corner and her new jeans are so tight, I hope she gets a yeast infection. — Caroline Kepnes

Choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it. — Nayantara Sahgal

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. — Andrew Sullivan

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. — Christopher Morley

Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No! — Margaret Thatcher

Jane put her hand on the calendar, as if she could take those days right in through her skin, her pores, into her blood and bones, hold them forever. But time didn't work that way. Time was all about the present. It was where you were and what you were doing, in any given moment, that gave life its meaning. — Luanne Rice

Some people move our souls to dance. — Flavia Weedn

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects. — Adam McKay

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. — Edith Wharton

Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene. — Amit Ray

SPIRITUAL FARTS Reverend Michael Beckwith2 tells us that if we simply study and talk about spiritual truths but never actually LIVE the stuff, we're gonna get spiritual indigestion and constipation. Spiritual farts. It's not a pretty thing. Seriously. — Brian Johnson

It's not even rejection, it's dismissal. — Paula Hawkins

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests ... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments. — Jacques Delors

And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that cruelest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity. The greatest conflict tat could occur between two Russians was a lovers' misunderstanding: he thought she no longer loved him; she thought he no longer loved her. But in the final scene they would fall into each others' arms, tears of happiness trickling down their cheeks. — Milan Kundera

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation. — Aeschylus