Lady Thatcher Quotes & Sayings

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher

If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now — Nehali Lalwani

Some in Westminster have talked about her receiving a state funeral when she dies, which seems a bizarre sort of tribute to someone who believed the state should do as little as possible. It would be far more appropriate to allow competitive bids from private companies to run the funeral arrangements. 'And we now go over live to Westminster, where state leaders are lining up for Lady Thatcher's funeral sponsored by McDonald's. And there we see the coffin respectfully borne on the shoulders of six part-time burger-flippers dressed in the official Ronald McDonald costume, before the private cremation when the body will be flame-grilled with gherkins and a slice of cheese.'
It's what she would have wanted. — John O'Farrell

I let my eyes drift down to his.
I like you rumpled. It's very ... sexy. — Katrina Abbott

This lady is not for turning. — Margaret Thatcher

The people who accomplish the most astounding things for God's glory aren't the people who feel the least fear. Often they're the ones who deal with the most intense fear. But instead of letting that fear disable their dreams, they start increasing their capacity for faith. They act on the part of God's direction they do understand. And they leave the rest up to him. — Steven Furtick

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all. — Margaret Thatcher

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady. — Margaret Thatcher

There's no such thing as society. — Margaret Thatcher

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. — Anton Chekhov

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning. — Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher

collaborating with Grace. It was more — Elin Hilderbrand

I never hugged him, I bombed him. — Margaret Thatcher

It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never. — David Graeber

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp. — Denis Healey

By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher. — Rush Limbaugh

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well. — Ronald Reagan

Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others. Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out.(...)She will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity. — Morrissey

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants. — Bill Jay

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. — Thomas Huxley

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning. — Margaret Thatcher

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it. — Barry Alvarez

Unlike the hard, iron skeleton of war, the Izzy Doll is soft and cuddly.
Not forced upon, it is given freely and accepted easily. It cannot be bought or sold therefore has no monetary power. It is created in the spirit of love and given in the same. A gesture of kindness, it brings hope to those who have lost hope. It is created by and distributed by volunteers, all who are in the mood for peace. In a world full of woes and wrongs, it is cheerful and right. And it is a gift of peace.
from In the Mood for Peace: the Story of the Izzy Doll — Phyllis Wheaton

Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it. — Catherine Doherty

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism. — Nancy Reagan

I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. — Michele Bachmann

The idea that Sir Gerek the Irritable was being kind to her made her stomach do a strange flip. — Melanie Dickerson

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts — Margaret Thatcher

You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre. — Sean Bean

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. — Cheryl Strayed

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it? — Maureen Lipman

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet. — Margaret Thatcher

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher. — Alexander Dubcek

What Britain needs is an iron lady. — Margaret Thatcher

Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady. — Louise Burfitt-Dons