Toryism Quotes & Sayings

Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man. — Boris Johnson

He didn't see anything."
She rolled to her feet. "I was in your bed! We could have scarred him for life!"
"Grace, we weren't doing anything. Well, I wasn't. You were snoring."
"I don't
" She smoothed her dress down and searched out her sandals, shoving her feet into them. She glanced at herself in the mirror over his dresser and groaned. Hair, wild. Lips, swollen. Face, flushed.
Nipples, hard.
"Dammit!" She clapped her hands over them. "It's like they're broken! — Jill Shalvis

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. — Kerry Greenwood

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future. — Narendra Modi

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave. — Thomas Paine

At any point God can change his plans for your life when he decides your life purpose needs to be protected. — Shannon L. Alder

If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying. — Brett Hoebel

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency. — John Mackey

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger. — Dani Shapiro

The people - why the people are magnificent: in their carriages, which are numerous, in their house furniture, which is fine, in their pride and conceit, which are inimitable, in their profaneness, which is intolerable, in the want of principle, which is prevalent, in their Toryism, which is insufferable. — David McCullough

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities. — Richelle Mead

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast. — Melody Beattie

Look at the way people have swung through Communism, Toryism, Liberalism -- in vast blocks. In my father's boyhood you were either a Liberal or a Conservative in England, and there you stuck, and in America you were a sturdy individualist Democrat or Republican from the cradle to the grave. But now the Voice does it -- the pervading voice. And just now
it's come to a point when a Voice -- putting it straight and clear. Straight and clear... — H.G.Wells

Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention? — Carolyn Jourdan

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. — Lindsey Graham

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many, — Susan May Warren

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things. — Walter Bagehot

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. — Lincoln Kirstein

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me. — Paolo Maldini

This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue. — Frank I. Cobb

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment. — George Orwell

If a word means everything, then in means nothing. — Thomas Sowell