Thatcher Trade Union Quotes & Sayings

When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian. — Amy-Jill Levine

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism! — Anton Chekhov

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.' — Brad Alan Lewis

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears. — Samuel Daniel

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up. — David Haye

When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible. — Jesse Jackson

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too. — Paul Gallico

Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and she lay still, become contained by him, sleeping in him as lightning sleeps in a pure, soft stone. — D.H. Lawrence

My mind drifted to my family. I thought about how I had the opportunity to serve them. I didn't have to carry them across a freezing river in the middle of a snowstorm or give them my food when they didn't have enough. There would be other streams they would need help to cross, and I'd be there for them, always and in whatever way they needed me. — Mike Ericksen

Was it possible to measure what the heart felt? — Rachel Hawthorne

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose
and fearing that they will make us lose? — Alfie Kohn

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim ... We have alternatives to violence. — Abe Fortas

The nice thing about 'Honeymoon in Vegas' is we're not talking about some crazy smash hit where everyone is coming and comparing my performance to Nicholas Cage. — Rob McClure