Quotes On Suez Canal Crisis

#1. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

Kate Williams

#2. I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Nicola Cornick

#3. Maybe that's the trick. You should never come back. Never go backwards. Never give the past that much hold over you.

Scott Tracey

#4. Ashes or diamonds
foe or friend
we're all equal in the end

Roger Waters

#5. Brain cells last as long as you do. You are issued with a hundred billion or so at birth and that is all you are ever going to get. It has been estimated that you lose five hundred of them an hour, so if you have any serious thinking to do there really isn't a moment to waste.

Bill Bryson

#6. We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

Owen Jones

#7. Don't let me fall."
"What if I promise to catch you?"
I smile. "I'll be the one who will have to catch you.

Corinne Michaels