Prime Quotes - Page 33

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

Bob Hope

Men, Comic, Stage

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I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

George W. Bush

Humor, Appreciate, Political

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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simple, May, Youth

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.216

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If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Charles Wagner

Men, Justice, Judging

Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

Lee Kuan Yew

Thinking, Two, Mind

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On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

Matthew Arnold

Summer, Lonely, Gay

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

Stanley Baldwin

Years, Judgement, Lasts

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Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

Ken Livingstone

Country, Military, War

"This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.

Gloria Estefan

Song, Real, Writing

Associated Press Interview, November 3, 2006.

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I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Tony Blair

Party, People, Leader

Tony Blair's Speech to the Labour Party Conference, news.bbc.co.uk. September 28, 1999.

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As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Susan Rice

Israel, Stronger, United States

"Amb. Susan Rice, Rep. Mike Rogers discuss violence against Americans in the Middle East". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Shinzo Abe

Years, Practice, Lasts

"Postcard From Japan: Talking Zen, Abenomics, Social Networking and the Constitution With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.

Fred Hoyle

Appreciate, Mind, Battle

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In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

Shinzo Abe

Second Chance, Japan, Challenges

"Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fashion, Past, Salad

Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

Robert Herrick

Running, Flower, Race

'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Stephen King

Book, Giving, Water

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

Peter Carey

Father, War, Home

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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Robert A. Heinlein

Blind, Instinct, Stranger In A Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.42, Hachette UK

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Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

Paolo Giordano

Destiny, Numbers, Space

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Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Patrick Ness

Bully, Annoyed, One Day

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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

Elizabeth Berg

Children, Black And White, Past

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The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

J. K. Rowling

Magic, Sides, Trouble

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.22, Pottermore

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I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

Tony Blair

Ministers, Prime Minister

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If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point.

Daisaku Ikeda

Return, Ifs

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