#pa

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#anywhere #back #belong #country #dreamed

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#best #dread #enough #hell #i

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. ↗

— Mary Webb

#become #glances #infinitely #invisible #murmurs

The thing we fear we bring to pass. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#fear #pass #thing

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#britain #cent #country #developed #developed country

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#conviction #done #many #measures #must

Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#companies #could #great #growth #india

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#after #against #i #insured #losses

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ↗