I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.

Once the bears hug has got you it is apt to be for keeps.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautifu in its way, but incapable of growth.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.