Catherine Ashton Quotes

#1. In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Catherine Ashton

#2. I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

Thom Gunn

#3. In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.

Catherine Ashton

#4. A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down - that is felt.

Zadie Smith

#5. Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

Ron Chernow

#6. There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

Herbert Spencer

#7. Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
Who came sure from a sea of light?
Or since those drops are all sent back
So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
That what God takes, He'll not restore?

Henry Vaughan

#8. I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.

James Gray

#9. I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Catherine Ashton

#10. We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

Mitch Albom

#11. When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

Mark Twain

#12. I'm not interested in the limelight.

Catherine Ashton

#13. I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherine Ashton

#14. Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

Ilona Andrews

#15. Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

Catherine Ashton

#16. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.

Rebecca Goldstein

#17. I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Al Capp

#18. Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Catherine Ashton

#19. The most uninteresting thing in the world is watching narcissists fuck each other.

Jarett Kobek

#20. The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,

Arthur Miller

#21. I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

Catherine Ashton

#22. Praise begins a prayer.

Lailah Gifty Akita