#ski

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. ↗

— Michael Caine

#always #any #because #beside #i

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asking #better #daily #heart #longing

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?' ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#another #answer #asking #deliver #happiness

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#chancellor #failing #george #his #hold

Someone tall and tanned was standing just inside the doorway: Owen Walker had arrived. Obviously, she had known this was going to happen – he was one of the people she was setting up for – but she hadn’t anticipated him getting there so soon, while she was on her own, cheeks bulging like a hamster, stuffed with food. ↗

— Emma Jackson

#made-up #owen-walker #food

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#despite #go #high #jobs #lack

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#father #i #meet #raging #skies

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. ↗

— Jane Campion

#develop #experience #film-making #first #grow

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#any #deadline #express #ideas #improved

Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#been #europe #european #expected #farming