Douglas Carswell Quotes

#1. Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

Douglas Carswell

#2. Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

H.L. Mencken

#3. I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

Mark Takano

#4. Marry him," Arin said, "but be mine in secret.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

Douglas Carswell

#6. The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

Paul Goodman

#7. The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

Mary Rowlandson

#8. There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

R.A. Torrey

#9. I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Caroline Corr

#10. It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice ... Restorative justice is a fad.

Douglas Carswell

#11. Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Andy Goldsworthy

#12. If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

Adam McKay