Everybody wants to be great at something.
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
In politics a week is a very long time.
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U. S. ]
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.
The sin is in our thoughts.
If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.