Wendell Phillips Famous Quotes & Sayings

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy. — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them. — Evelyn Underhill

He shouldn't want to see her, but he did. He shouldn't want to know how she felt, how she tasted, but he did. He shouldn't want to know what food she liked or what she thought about when she was alone. He shouldn't want to know what her favorite music was or what she did when she wasn't modeling, if she did anything at all, but he did. He wanted to know everything there was to know about Razel D'Punz; the real Razel. No makeup. No costumes. No lights or camera. — Elizabeth Morgan

In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail. — George MacDonald

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present -day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. — Vannevar Bush

If Islamic countries can't come up with their own principles for women's competition," she said in one widely reported speech, "then the way dictated by Western oppressing countries will be imposed on us." Iran — Geraldine Brooks

To genius life never grows commonplace. — James Russell Lowell

I felt my muscles tensing as my body readied itself to flight - not fight - from whatever critter was about to spring free from beneath the branches and attack. I'd long since realized I was the type who'd always run. I'd grown up having a mother who'd continuously informed me there was no shame in living to flee another day. — Ethan Day

He'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage. — George R R Martin

I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us ... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. — Gregory Maguire

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu