Archibald Primrose Quotes

#1. I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

Katharine McPhee

#2. I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them.

Swin Cash

#3. We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

Archibald Primrose

#4. Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

Archibald Primrose

#5. A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Archibald Primrose

#6. Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

Archibald Primrose

#7. Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Archibald Primrose

#8. What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

Archibald Primrose

#10. Creative people are more prone to depression.

Adam Ant

#11. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

J.G. Ballard

#12. Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Archibald Primrose

#13. The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

Archibald Primrose