Simon Heffer Quotes

#1. You can learn from your past but you can't change it - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#2. Emil wanted to serve his nation and make her great again. He wanted to be a good Nazi, he really did, but when he thought of Anne and the terrified expression on her face, he shook his head. He faked a limp all the way home. - Author: Lee Strauss

#3. Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake. - Author: Simon Heffer

#4. Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. - Author: Simon Heffer

#5. All people are enslaved by something. - Author: Dejan Stojanovic

#6. In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands. - Author: Simon Heffer

#7. Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle. - Author: Simon Heffer

#8. So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence. - Author: Gene Sharp

#9. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters. - Author: Simon Heffer

#10. The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better. - Author: Simon Heffer

#11. Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost. - Author: Alice Sebold

#12. Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#13. It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover. - Author: Mary Anne Yarde

#14. The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. - Author: Simon Heffer

#15. I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around. - Author: Ravi Zacharias

#16. The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. - Author: John Edwards

#17. One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real. - Author: Andy Daly

#18. If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. - Author: Simon Heffer

#19. The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster