U S Uk Special Relationship Quotes & Sayings

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread. — Oscar Wilde

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow. — Christopher Hitchens

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them. — Idries Shah

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — Terry Pratchett

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246) — Keith Ablow

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl — Abraham Maslow

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree. — Ming-Dao Deng

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis. — Hakim Bey

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. — Jacqueline Winspear

He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents. From detesting her and her foul tongue at first, Martin grew to admire her as he observed the brave fight she made. — Jack London

Far too many people - many of them academics, many politicians - continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.
I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship. — Peter Hitchens

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution. — Tariq Ramadan

The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

The conflict between church teachings and natural desires results in guilt, shame and anger. — Darrel Ray

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up. — Gina Greenlee