Portacabins Quotes

#1. I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Ed Miliband

#2. Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness ...

John Geddes

#3. I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

Shailene Woodley

#4. Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Paracelsus

#5. A good poet feels what his community feels.
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Gil Scott-Heron

#6. The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

Thomas Carlyle

#8. Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

Ray Dalio

#10. Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

Simon Sinek

#11. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.

Anthony Doerr

#12. I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Elizabeth Taylor

#13. My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

Steven Tyler