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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton
Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting. — Jack Layton
If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart. — Jack Layton
Dr. Clair looked at Layton. The mancala pieces were still in her hand.
If Angela Ashforth ever says anything like that to you again, you tell her that just because she's insecure about being a little girl in a society that puts an inordinate amount of pressure on little girls to live up to certain physical, emotional and ideological standards
many of which are improper, unhealthy and self-perpetuating
doesn't mean she has to take her misplaced self-loathing out on a nice boy like you. You may be inherently a part of the problem but that doesn't mean you aren't a nice boy with nice manners and it certainly doesn't mean you have AIDS."
I'm not sure I can remember all that," Layton said.
Well then, tell Angela that her mother is a white trash drunk from Butte. — Reif Larsen
Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats. — Jack Layton
Rae Layton, I've loved you since the very first day I set eyes on you and your pink polka dot knickers, you are my world. I know we're young, but I love you Gia, I want to make beautiful babies with you. I know people are going to be against this but they don't know what we know, they don't feel what we feel, I want to grow old with you G, I want to marry you. Please, would you do the honour of becoming my Wife? — Lesley Jones
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn. — Jack Layton
You do not have opportunities for influence by accident. God-given opportunities bring God-intended responsibilities. Do all the good you can wherever God puts you. Apply this to your situation among family members, your neighbors, and your coworkers. — Layton Talbert
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton
How seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world. — Irving Layton
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations. — Jack Layton
Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I. — Jack Layton
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important. — Jack Layton
Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate. — Jack Layton
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? — Irving Layton
I've been living in waiting. I must move on. That's why we're here. Grandmamma said that the cream of Society comes here, and if anyone knows anything about his travels or his disappearance, this would be the place to find out about it.
"And have you discovered anything?" Adele asked.
"The cream," Pippa sighed, "has obviously curdled. We have one more gentleman to speak with, and then we'll move on. This fellow is said to know everyone and everything too or, at least, everything he wants to know. He does favors for his friends as well, Grandfather said. We'll see."
"Why don't you employ a Runner?"
"That way the whole world will know. This way, only the privileged few do."
"And if you find Noel is alive?" Adele asked.
"I'll kill him," Pippa said.
Her friend's eyes opened wide. "You're joking, of course.
Pippa only sighed again. — Edith Layton
And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are much:
yet a poem includes them like a pool
water and reflection. — Irving Layton
Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories. Statements declare doctrinal truth; stories illustrate doctrinal truth. Doctrinal statements are like skeletons - bare bones, but absolutely essential to give form and order and interconnection to the body of revealed truth. Stories flesh out that skeleton, incarnate that truth, demonstrate how the doctrine looks and moves and acts in the real world of flesh and blood. — Layton Talbert
God rules and governs all events, including the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their appointed ends for His glory. — Layton Talbert
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss. — Irving Layton
I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship. — Jack Layton
What I mean is, what makes people unhappy is not too little choice, but too much," said Mitchell Layton. "having to decide, always to decide, torn every which way all of the time. Now in a society of pattern, a man could feel safe. Nobody would come to him all the time pestering him to do something. Nobody would have to do anything. What I mean is, of course, except working for the common good. — Ayn Rand
Ideas are always more important than money. — Jack Layton
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world. — Jack Layton
Oh. Well, as long as it's not my fault. — Mary Layton
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace. — Irving Layton
By walking, I found out where I was going. — Irving Layton
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever. — Jack Layton
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that. — Jack Layton
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. — Jack Layton
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. — Irving Layton
You told me last night I healed you, but you healed me just as much. I love you, Layton. I'll love you forever, too. — Kelly Elliott
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form. — George Vecsey
Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer. — Jack Layton
People do not knowingly join "cults" that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials, and the like, in an effort to be a part of something larger than themselves. It is mostly the innocent and naive who find themselves entrapped. In their openhearted endeavor to find meaning in their lives, they walk blindly into the promise of ultimate answers and a higher purpose. It is usually only gradually that a group turns into or reveals itself as a cult, becomes malignant, but by then it is often too late. — Deborah Layton
Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. — Jack Layton
I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed! — Jack Layton
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
When your own thoughts are forbidden, when your questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished, when contacts with friendships outside of the organization are censored, we are being abused, for the ends never justify the means. When our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger. When we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult ... If there is any lesson to be learned it is that an ideal can never be brought about by fear, abuse, and the threat of retribution. When family and friends are used as a weapon in order to force us to stay in an organization, something has gone terribly wrong. — Deborah Layton
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton
So, it was that bad? That you couldn't just leave Layton behind but had to flee the entire continent?"
"Mm," Felix said noncommittally. His voice went raw. "I am sorry I left like that."
"It's okay. You don't belong here. You were a wild toad caught in a mason jar."
"With a stick and a leaf."
"Hold on . . . am I the stick in this metaphor? Because I have lost some weight . . ."
"I didn't know what I was doing. There was something uncomfortable about it."
"I can't imagine what."
"Certainly not The Little Mermaidcomforter. That felt oh-so-right. — Shannon Hale
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress. — Jack Layton
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. — Irving Layton
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. — Jack Layton
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. — Jack Layton
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government. — Jack Layton
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate. — Jack Layton
I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world. — Jack Layton
I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity. — Jack Layton
Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime, — Jack Layton
Remember when I told you I knew about you? You interrupted me. I wasn't going to say I sympathized with you; I was going to say I didn't give a damn. Life is hard for everyone, some more than others. But the damage you cause to other people, that's on you. Your pain has made you into a monster. — Layton Green
I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it. — Jack Layton
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son. — Irving Layton
Death is a name for beauty not in use. — Irving Layton
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy. — Irving Layton
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. — Jack Layton
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton
I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics, — Justin Trudeau
God's fundamental goal for believers is not to protect us from harm or suffering, to make us comfortable, or to benefit from our service. You can biblically sum up God's primary aim for your whole life in one uncomfortable word: change. Ironic as it may sound, change is the one constant that God purposes for every believer, regardless of circumstances - whether you are in ministry or in a secular job, married or single, healthy or handicapped, chronically ill or terminally diseased. God's immediate and ongoing purpose for every Christian in time and on earth is to change us, to make us like Himself, to conform us to the image of His Son. — Layton Talbert
The last man, Pfc Layton, was the squad's favorite point man and didn't say much in or out of camp, but he was totally dependable. His only goal in life was to get out of Vietnam alive and get out of the Corps. He was a good point man because he didn't like to take chances. Layton was nineteen years old. — Raymond Hunter Pyle
I played a lot of squash for a lot of years. — Jack Layton
According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.
Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109 — Doris Layton MacKenzie
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love. — Irving Layton
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. — Irving Layton
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado. — Yvon Chouinard
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. — Irving Layton
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference. — Jack Layton
Y-you, Marley Layton, are my favouritist big brother called Marley. The best, my very bestest one." George points her finger up at me as she speaks.
"I'm your only big brother called Marley."
"This true, this is vrery, vrery true," she slurs. — Lesley Jones
team factors for agile project success: the dedicated team and the cross-functional team. — Mark C. Layton