Quotes About Modern Britain

#1. In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Jenny Lawson

#2. The early Celts lived in an enormous region, stretching from modern Turkey through eastern and central Europe (including much of modern day Switzerland, Austria, Germany and northern Italy), and westwards and northwards into much of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Britain and Ireland.

Sharon Paice MacLeod

#3. They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

Francis Maude

#4. Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

Mark Udall

#5. Our modern history begins in 1788 with the dumping of the human detritus of Britain ... Yet repositioned in the sunlight , they flourished. ...This was colonial Australia's great gift to the world: practical proof that, when it comes to human society, the soil is more important than the seed.

Richard Glover

#6. In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

Edward Leigh

#7. You're like a rebellious child!
Huh?
You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

Peach-Pit

#8. The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

George Blagden

#9. I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

Narendra Modi

#10. As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

Frederick Forsyth

#11. Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Tris Speaker

#12. Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

David Miliband

#13. The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of most of the world - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

Charles James Fox

#15. For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Mark Steyn

#16. Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

Adolf Hitler

#17. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

#18. Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Gordon Brown

#19. When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Joe Sakic

#20. Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?

Padgett Powell

#21. May you live long, but not in good health.

Stephen King

#22. We should be horrified by people who die for causes, not make heroes out of them.

Marty Rubin

#23. Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Vera Nazarian

#24. The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

James Buchan

#25. Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?

Roberto Calvi

#26. Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy?

Lauren Oliver

#27. The artist is justified by his art.

Lewis Foreman Day

#28. We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

David Cameron