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Linda Colley Quotes

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1949

Topics

People Looking Gun You Down Mean

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Life Sorry Political Life Is A Us

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

John Frusciante

Time Yourself Fate Trying You Worst

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

Robert J. Bentley

Government Practice Me Medicine How

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Success God Time Do The Right Thing

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

Stellan Skarsgard

Family Time Woman Problems Talking

My belief is that a positive culture works best because people want to meet or exceed expectations, not demands.

Positive Best Culture People Meet

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.

Rosemary Mahoney

Morning Time Walls Direction Teeth

Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent.

Quality Talent Important Taste Pull

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

Women Celebrate Short Violence High

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

Government Choice Election Difference

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Good Business Man Artist Understand

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Good Good And Evil Evil Believe Much

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