#rita

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre. ↗

— Vince Cable

#big #bizarre #britain #co-operative #easy

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. ↗

— Joe Chung

#authoritarian #democracy #rarely #state #those

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#england #forefathers #hold #i #inherit

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. ↗

— Thomas Day

#awful #britain #equally #favourable #her

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#filmmaking #moral #screwed #weather #will

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#despair #drive #equanimity #father #him

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#critical #heritage #history #immigrants #nation

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#arms race #child #children #inheritance #nations