#men

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #carry #challenge #disillusion #each

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#charles #do you know #every #golf #good

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. ↗

— Tony Blair

#act #community #conflict #default #disarmament

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. ↗

— Tony Blair

#commentators #cynics #human #human progress #never

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. ↗

— Tony Blair

#began #certain #church #conversion #got

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. ↗

— James Dickey

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#career #featuring #first #follow #had

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. ↗

— Edward Koch

#hands #legislature #moment #more #say

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. ↗

— Tony Blair

#choices #confront #dangers #events #facing