Top 26 Quotes About Hailsham
#1. If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#2. It was his reaction when I mention I was from Hailsham. He'd just come through his third donation, it hadn't gone well, and he must have known he wan't going to make it. He could hardly breathe, but he looked towards me and said: "Hailsham. I bet that was a beautiful place.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#3. A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at "creating." Ruth
Kazuo Ishiguro
#4. I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#7. The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Lord Hailsham
#8. Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities. They had known the green breaking waves of the sea, and the green aisles of the silent forests. They had known war and death and fierce, cruel elation.
Winifred Holtby
#9. The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things
Lemony Snicket
#11. Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
Lord Hailsham
#12. When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
Lysa TerKeurst
#13. I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
Andrew Mason
#14. A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
Lord Hailsham
#15. A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
Lord Hailsham
#16. If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.
Lord Hailsham
#17. I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.
Lisa Loomer
#18. I've always been a pretty good researcher, said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.
Daniel O'Malley
#19. You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Lord Hailsham
#20. In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
Lord Hailsham
#22. Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.
Lord Hailsham
#23. I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Lord Hailsham
#24. The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lord Hailsham
#25. And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.
Joseph Von Eichendorff
#26. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Lord Hailsham
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