Modernise Quotes

#1. I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Martin Parr

#2. But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

John Hutton

#3. If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money.

Estelle Morris

#4. Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Victor Pinchuk

#5. You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard Rogers

#6. But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.

John Hutton

#7. Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.

Kim Harrison

#8. And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are much:
yet a poem includes them like a pool
water and reflection.

Irving Layton

#9. That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Boris Becker

#10. Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

Hilary Rosen

#11. Got an issue, get a tissue.

Jeff Rich

#12. When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

David Hume

#13. If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

Daniel Negreanu

#14. His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any in the world.

Dean Koontz

#15. No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different..

Cate Tiernan

#16. Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#17. No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

Samuel Beckett