Top 73 Healey Quotes
#1. Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.
Denis Healey
#2. Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps.
Simon Hoggart
#3. The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!
George Carlin
#4. Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.
Denis Healey
#5. The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.
Trebor Healey
#6. I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.
Denis Healey
#7. How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?
Trebor Healey
#8. No one can take your soul from you. You have to give it away.
Here's my soul. I'm giving it to you.
I hope you're listening.
Karen Healey
#9. Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.
Kerry Healey
#10. I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.
Kerry Healey
#11. Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.
Karen Healey
#12. Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
#13. There are foour books with cream covers next to it, mysteries set in Russia. I don't think I'm quite up to that. I have enough mystery in my life as it is.
Emma Healey
#14. Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks that morphed from wave to particle faster than you could say, please don't leave?
Trebor Healey
#15. Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation.
Trebor Healey
#16. Yellowdog, where does sorrow go?"
He held his heart. "Lives here, in each of us.
Trebor Healey
#17. Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.
Karen Healey
#18. Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no ... He does not have a vicious bone in his body.
Kerry Healey
#19. Though it was the Young Men's Christian Association, Paul of Tarsus had little to do with it. The showers were cruisy, and the sauna even more so.
Trebor Healey
#20. I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
Denis Healey
#21. The sun's in my eyes and it's difficult to see. The shape of her is distorted by the light, circles of her silhouette removed as if by a pastry cutter.
Emma Healey
#22. grass is slightly frosty and I enjoy hearing it crunch
Emma Healey
#23. I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.
Denis Healey
#24. I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
Jeff Healey
#25. of the classics. Most he finished, some he didn't. He
Tony Healey
#26. The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Denis Healey
#27. It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.
Kerry Healey
#28. And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.
Kerry Healey
#29. I opened the bag and ran my hand through his ashes. He's like an instant universe. Just add a little water, and we'd have a big bang right here.
Trebor Healey
#30. We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Denis Healey
#31. It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
Denis Healey
#32. All I'd done for the past ten years was talk about it. I was sick of talking...sick of analyzing...sick of reliving it...sick of the screaming in my head that replayed over and over like a song stuck on repeat.
S.A. Healey
#33. An ancient noise, like a fox bark, makes an attempt at the edges of my brain.
Emma Healey
#35. Don't focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy.
Trebor Healey
#36. I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds.
Trebor Healey
#37. Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
Caroline Wells Healey Dall
#38. I shall sustain a massive erection, that's what, and I shan't be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.
Stephen Fry
#39. The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.
Denis Healey
#40. I've learned that I don't need much sleep, and that I am able to really stand up for the things that I think that are important and that there are a lot of people out there who agree with me.
Kerry Healey
#41. The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.
Kerry Healey
#42. I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.
Kerry Healey
#43. I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.
Kerry Healey
#44. Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't ... you're blind!
Jeff Healey
#45. An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
Denis Healey
#46. Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.
Jeff Healey
#47. Even when I wasn't looking for Jimmy, there was a huge empty mouth waiting inside the doors of all those clubs. It was in almost every face, and every heartless electronic song. Just because it beats like one doesn't make it a heart.
Trebor Healey
#48. Talent is great, but persistence is totally underrated.
Karen Healey
#49. I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.
Trebor Healey
#51. You have the power to create your own destiny. You just need to decide what you want and how badly you want it.
S.A. Healey
#52. Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.
David Healey
#53. If I were God, it'd be a whole different story, dropping fruit at will. Let them eat apples.
Trebor Healey
#54. Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.
Denis Healey
#55. There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned out to be enough for now.
Karen Healey
#56. Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.
Trebor Healey
#57. Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
Denis Healey
#58. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. - Italian proverb Saturday,
Jane Healey
#59. I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
Jeff Healey
#60. World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.
Denis Healey
#62. When Mitt Romney talks about women, when he says he believes that we can do any job a man can do, I know from experience that he's speaking from the heart.
Kerry Healey
#63. The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
Denis Healey
#64. No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them.
But he'd sung for me.
Karen Healey
#65. Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
Denis Healey
#66. Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!
Caroline Wells Healey Dall
#69. As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
Kerry Healey
#70. Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Denis Healey
#71. I don't look up. It's such a little thing - knowing where to put cutlery - but I feel like I've failed an important test. A little piece of me is gone.
Emma Healey
#72. The only good soul is a lost soul, and only a lost soul can find its way home.
Trebor Healey
#73. The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.
Jeff Healey
