Nina Bawden Quotes

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 19, 1925 - August 22, 2012

Topics

FearPeopleSafetyYouDutyFail

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

Jil Sander

SayingLanguageYouUnderstandAble

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

Robert Jarvik

MedicalI AmPhysicianPracticalAm

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ChurchHeavenDownAlwaysCashOff

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

John Sebastian

MusicPoliceI AmHairWishYou

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

John Tesh

OnlyMusicianKnownThe Only Thing

I never second-judged my mother.

Shiv Nadar

MotherNever

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Robbie Fowler

LoveGreatTimeDayI AmHappy

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

Rosanne Cash

MyselfPeopleMeThinkDangerous

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.

Ron Johnson

FreeProblemInnocenceYouDifficult

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

PathDesignFinalDifferentDozen

People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.

Miranda Otto

PeopleThoughtStandYouKnowSay

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Jason Isbell

FamilyHeritageFocusedMuscleVery

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