Matthew Parris Quotes

#1. The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

Michael Atherton

#2. When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

Matthew Parris

#3. Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

Matthew Parris

#4. All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.

Jay Crownover

#5. Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Matthew Parris

#6. You are stranded in a culture where you can't trust many, you don't fully understand the language, and you can't read the signs - and at the same time you try not to let on that you can't do those things.

Kim De Blecourt

#7. It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.

Sean Hannity

#8. I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.

Misty Copeland

#9. Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

George Pope Morris

#10. Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Matthew Parris

#11. If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.

Saaif Alam

#12. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Matthew Parris

#13. As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

Matthew Parris

#14. I know I suck," I whispered, looking her in the eye, feeling desperate. "I know I don't deserve you. Just don't leave me. Please? I'll be better, okay? Just don't leave me.

Kieran Scott

#15. But a dauntless faith believes

Thomas Aquinas

#16. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#17. Yeah, I understand. That doesn't mean I'll obey - Bianka

Gena Showalter