Quotes 201 till 220 of 561.
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If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010 -
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
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