Top 27 Quotes About Devolution
#1. We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
Douglas Alexander
#2. Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
Johann Lamont
#3. Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.
Rhodri Morgan
#4. I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
Jim DeMint
#5. To mitigate complications and aid in the procedure of devolution of assets after death, a 'will' has to be well planned and drafted.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#6. The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward
Michael Chabon
#7. The trouble is that we do not know whether it has delivered better outcomes or not in services. After more than a decade, the time is right now to carry out a study like this and see if devolution is delivering where it counts.
Brian Donohoe
#9. If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
James Q. Wilson
#10. It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be proud of what you have achieved through devolution.
Mel Gibson
#11. If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.
Samael Aun Weor
#12. With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own
Victor Hugo
#13. Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.
John Carroll
#14. What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
Megan Whalen Turner
#15. It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#16. Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
#19. The wife Estelle's stone sinks to the right. The dead here seem really dead, and bone lonely, unlike the graves in Italian cemeteries, bedecked with fresh flowers, red votive lights, and photos of the deceased.
Frances Mayes
#20. There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
Zach Condon
#21. Human beings have evolved so fast, relative to other life on Earth, and this has never been properly explained, but now there are signs that the human race has burned out in evolutionary terms, and perhaps it is our time to devolve.
Robert Black
#22. After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan
#23. If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.
Jonathan D. Spence
#24. I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
French Montana
#25. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
Norah Vincent
#27. Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?
Daniel Quinn