Quotes About Scottish Nationalism

#1. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

Douglas Dunn

#2. Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

Michael Gove

#3. The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Tariq Ali

#4. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.

Veronica Roth

#5. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Toni Morrison

#6. All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Philip Kerr

#7. I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

Steve Martin

#8. I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden ... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

Peter L. Bergen

#9. I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.

Paul Prudhomme

#10. Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Michael Nesmith

#11. That American Dream that y'all fight so hard for over there ? The freedom that you would die to protect. They're yours too, you know.

Kristen Proby

#12. We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

Earl Nightingale

#13. Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

Moliere

#14. I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. After all I am alive only by accident.

Sylvia Plath

#15. He wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

Larry Mullen Jr.