Heffer Quotes

#1. The fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability.

Aristotle.

#2. I wonder as to the value of consciousness," said Jack, "if it does not change the nature of a beast.

Roger Zelazny

#3. Charlie looked at the great library of scrolls. It would take a lifetime to read them all, even for a genius. So this was how they'd trapped the great Cipher, thought Charlie. She was clever enough to escape any prison. But something in her nature couldn't let the scrolls go unread. Lily's

C.S. Quinn

#4. Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.

Simon Heffer

#5. Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

Simon Heffer

#6. If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Chris Evert

#7. One time, hey, in high school this girl told me, hey, its not you, its me.. Ofcourse its you, you dang HEFFER!

Si Robertson

#8. In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

Simon Heffer

#9. You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field.
You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the field.

Toba Beta

#10. Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

Simon Heffer

#11. It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.

Steve Maraboli

#12. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

Simon Heffer

#13. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Diane Guerrero

#14. The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

Simon Heffer

#15. The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

Alexander Pope

#16. If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

Martial

#17. The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Joe Murray

#18. The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

Simon Heffer

#19. One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

May Sarton

#20. At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

Padma Lakshmi

#21. If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

Simon Heffer

#22. The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Chapman

#23. Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?

Jon Stewart

#24. Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

Catherine Malandrino