Bernard Levin Quotes

#1. The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

John Collison

#2. The simple act of helping someone - with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

Kevin Eikenberry

#3. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Bernard Levin

#4. Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#5. No amount of manifest absurdity ... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Bernard Levin

#6. Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

Bernard Levin

#7. In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Bernard Levin

#8. Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

Bernard Levin

#9. The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

Bernard Levin

#10. There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

John Salley

#11. But I could love you, too, sister. If you'd let me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Bernard Levin

#13. Be confident. Be successful. Be
beautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.
Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Be
educated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just be
you!

Russell Strand

#14. Even in all that darkness I could see her beauty. Still, I couldn't claim it for myself. Instead, I decided to hurt her.
"You loved someone," I said, "who was completely inappropriate.

Amber Dermont

#15. Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Lars Feld

#16. The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Bernard Levin

#17. Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Bernard Levin

#18. Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Dylan O'Brien

#19. The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Bernard Levin

#20. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#21. It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Bernard Levin

#22. Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

Blaise Pascal

#23. Check if anyone's following us," HAL said from the backseat. "How do I know that?" "Uh ... look in the rearview mirror.

Jane Seville

#24. I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

Bernard Levin

#25. The way I see it, religion, has done our family more harm than good. For me, faith has never been a source of comfort... For herself, Mela always missed having that sense of identity. She had a longing to belong... Long ago, we found that compromise.

Ralph Webster

#26. Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Bernard Levin