#wi

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. ↗

— William Hague

#common #common sense #discipline #good #high

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. ↗

— William Hague

#ask #because #colonel #coming #days

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#death

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. ↗

— William Hague

#i #iran #israel #launch #military

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. ↗

— William Hague

#clique #government #i #know #nasty

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa. ↗

— William Hague

#asia #countries #demands #elsewhere #future

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. ↗

— William Hague

#defenders #disgrace #ethnic #human #human rights

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. ↗

— William Hague

#been #conservative #conservative government #conservative party #go

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. ↗

— William Hague

#books #day #go #i #one day

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#future #haven #i #manner #out