Decentralising Quotes

#1. Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

David Blunkett

#2. I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

#4. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Shannon L. Alder

#5. The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Claudio Magris

#6. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

#7. I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

Hilary Duff

#8. God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Darrin Patrick

#9. Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

William Ellery Channing