We Don’t Run This Country For Corporations, We Run It For People

They think we cannot beat them.
It will not be easy.
It will be a long job.
It will be a terrible war.
But in the end we shall march through terror to triumph.
( David Lloyd George, 1914 )

Have I seen this level of sexist culture in other countries?
It hasn’t been so in your face, so pervasive.
( Rashida Manjoo, UN official, says that Britain is the most sexist country she has seen )

I cannot sit here day after day watching misery and doing nothing.
( UK High Court Judge Sir Paul Coleridge quits in despair at the divorce rate and the breakdown of family life )

She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and most bonkers of all of us.
What a beautiful child.
How is this possible that we will not see her again?
( Bob Geldof, after the death of his daughter Peaches )

She saw the best in me.
She saw the best in everybody.
She wouldn’t think they couldn’t make something of their lives.
( Ann Maguire’s former pupil Cain Thewlis, after the Leeds teacher was stabbed to death in the classroom )

I’m not a Christian but I want to live in a Christian country as I believe that it is the best guarantor of my freedom and the freedom of others.
( Julie Burchill )

Not so much the Wolf of Wall Street, more the Dunce of Downing Street.
( Ed Miliband, after the UK Prime Minister sold Royal Mail far too cheaply )

I am excited about the ageing process.
I am more interested in women who are not perfect.
( Emma Watson )

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
( Katherine Hepburn )

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
( Emily Dickinson )

Most Americans don’t realise that, decades ago, the Democrats instituted a long-term plan to gradually turn the United States into a Third World nation.
The country would become poorer and less free, but Democrats would have an unbeatable majority.
( Ann Coulter )

People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance, they live, they love, and they die.
And that matters.
That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.
( Elizabeth Warren )

If you scoff at intellectuals, harass scientists, and reward only athletic achievements, then the future is very dark indeed.
( John F. Kennedy )

The sons of a property tycoon walked free after they admitted attacking two off-duty policemen.
George Panayiotou, 26, and Costa, 24, whose father Andreas is worth about £400million, left one officer needing metal plates in his cheek and eye socket.
( Daily Mirror, 03.05.2014 )

Conservatism is the dread fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
( Wilfred Soon )

Those times when I get a bit paranoid and think I’m going a bit mad and need to see somebody who knows about mad people to tell me that I’m not.
( Lily Allen )

A City firm which advised ministers against raising the Royal Mail share offer price had a ‘golden ticket’ to cash in on the sell-off.
Lazard used its preferred buyer status to snap up six million shares, which were sold at a £8million profit.
( James Lyons, 01.05.2014 )

Joanna Lumley took 37 takes to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio?
I bet she wangled that.
( Dame Julie Andrews )

We just have one life.
Let’s keep it simple.
( Florence Emily Hookins )

I came into this business uneducated, dyslexic, 5ft 6in, cubic, with a face like a squashed cabbage, and they welcomed me with open arms.
( Bob Hoskins )

Some people we meet were dropped on their heads as babies.
Some were clearly thrown in the air and hit the ceiling fan.
Then bounced off the wall and fell out the window.
( Rose Winfold )

Taking care of our veterans is a cost of war.
If you can spend six trillion dollars sending people to war, you can spend a few billion dollars taking care of them when they come home.
( Bernie Sanders )

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
( Charlie Chaplin )

It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that’.
As if that gives them certain rights.
It’s actually nothing more than a whine.
‘I find that offensive’ – It has no meaning, it has no purpose.
It has no reason to be respected as a phrase.
‘I am offended by that’ – Well, so f++k++g what!
( Stephen Fry )

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
( C.S. Lewis )

If you can get your head around your dream it means your dream isn’t big enough.
( Victoria Beckham )

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.
And what I learnt was I didn’t like doing physical work.
( Rod Stewart )

I see the flaws, but I see what’s great more.
And I’ve got a banging body.
( Minnie Driver )

You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
( Daniel C. Dennett )

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
( C.S. Lewis )