Alistair Darling Quotes

#1. If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

Alastair Campbell

#2. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.

David Blunkett

#3. What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Martin Luther

#4. Wait," he whispered.

But she didn't.

Jay Kristoff

#5. There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell

#6. Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

John Charles Pollock

#7. I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

Miguel

#8. His shoes were bench-made by a company called Cheaney, from Northampton in England. Smarter buys than Church's, which were basically the same shoes but with a premium tag for the name. The style Reacher had chosen was called Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather.

Lee Child

#9. The economic times we are facing ... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

Alistair Darling

#10. The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Alistair Darling

#11. As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

Alistair Darling

#12. We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

Alistair Darling

#13. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

#14. You need to tell me why it won't work."
"Because you're seventeen and I'm eighteen. Because your first love isn't supposed to last.

Kris Noel

#15. Peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other's company for hours on end, while never running out of things to say.

John Boyne

#16. We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Noah Baumbach

#17. The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Alistair Darling

#18. Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Alistair Darling

#19. We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

Alistair Darling

#20. The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through, perhaps because it transpired that Mr Robertson believed that Scotland was 'a dark land' where 'homosexuals ruled the roost'.

Alistair Darling

#21. Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Alistair Darling

#22. Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Alistair Darling

#23. The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Alistair Darling

#24. On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

Alistair Darling

#25. Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Shuster

#26. I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Chris Osgood

#27. The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.

Tom Robbins

#28. In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others.

Debasish Mridha