Prime Quotes - Page 6

• Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

  Dalai Lama

  Purpose, Life Is, Purpose Of Life

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• For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Golden

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

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• I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

  John Smith

  Thinking, Trying, Weapons

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• The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

  David Letterman

  War, Japan, World

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• The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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

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• Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Night, Thinking, Decision

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clothes, Looks, Ridiculous

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• It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

  Jay Leno

  Nbc, Spots, Find Me

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

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• The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

  Winston Churchill

  Queens, Winning, Battle

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!"

  Keira Knightley

  Mistake, Thinking, Bored

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• When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

  Tony Blair

  People, Wonder, Ministers

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• "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• [N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.

  Ben Cardin

  Taken, Government, Political Will

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• Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Office, Information

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• Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

  David Winnick

  Publicity, Grudge, Ministers

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• The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

  Hugh Sidey

  Running, Eye, Men

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• Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

  James Cagney

  Nature, Order, My Family

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  Liam Fox

  Loyalty, Sorry, Mistake

  Liam Fox during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 10, 2011.

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• I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.

  Nick Clegg

  Hands, Europe, Issues

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• Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

  Douglas Hurd

  People, Arguing, Ministers

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• If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

  Douglas Hurd

  Ministers, Treaties, Has Beens

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

  William Wordsworth

  Fashion, Men, Hands

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1104, Delphi Classics

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• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  Joseph Stalin

  Evil, Division, Pope

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