Members Quotes - Page 6

• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

  Alex Ferguson

  London, Presses

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• Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Focus, Soul

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

  Asa Gray

  Calling, Profession, Knows

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• With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

  Anthony Storr

  Humanity, Rodents, Certain

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• The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Age, Church

  Charles HODGE (D.D., of Princeton, New Jersey.) (1855). “What is Presbyterianism? An Address”, p.68

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• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Country, Creating Life, Agents

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• When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

  Greg Lake

  Years, Two, Numbers

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• It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

  Robert Powell

  People, World, Paparazzi

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• There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.

  Shannen Doherty

  Two, Tantrums, Casts

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• The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Country, Prayer, House

  Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.

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• I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Exciting, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  Mary Douglas

  Rome, Church, Goes On

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• Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

  Joe Manchin

  Proud, Firsts, Lifetime

  "Gun Advocate Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Gun Law Changes After Newtown". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Family, Debt, Size

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• My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

  Tim Roth

  Country, Dad, Party

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

  Pratibha Patil

  India, Needs, World

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• The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mouths, Royal, Causes

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• I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

  Max Greenfield

  Writing, Phones, Email

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

  Richard V. Allen

  Powerful, Party, President

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• By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Together, Imf, Unions

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• The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  States, Treaties

  "Brussels is hostile to Scottish independence 'because it is weak'" by Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

  Mark Batterson

  Church, Imagine, Components

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• What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

  Evan Bayh

  Party, Self, Spirit

  "The sad, hypocritical retirement of Evan Bayh" by Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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