Tebbit Quotes

#1. Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

David Cannadine

#2. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Mercedes Lackey

#3. [The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

Norman Tebbit

#4. Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

Norman Tebbit

#5. Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Dolly Parton

#6. The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

Norman Tebbit

#7. Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

Tehmina Durrani

#8. such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class - the military.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Interpretation is directly related to a person's frame of mind. Looking at the same image, a person could see two different things depending on the mood that person is in at the time.

Chris Carter

#10. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

Norman Tebbit

#12. Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

Mary Baker Eddy

#13. The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

Norman Tebbit

#14. I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

Norman Tebbit

#15. A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.

Toni Sorenson

#16. And for you to be my wife is all I want in the world. I love you. I was afraid to admit it for a long time, but I know it now.

Kiera Cass

#17. He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

Norman Tebbit

#18. If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

John Roberts

#19. Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

Richard Driehaus

#20. The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Tracy

#21. It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

Norman Tebbit

#22. The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

Norman Tebbit

#23. I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Norman Tebbit

#24. The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.

Norman Tebbit

#25. I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

Norman Tebbit

#26. I've never bashed a union in my life.

Norman Tebbit

#27. Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly

Rick Riordan

#28. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

Norman Tebbit

#29. I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

Norman Tebbit

#30. If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.

Norman Tebbit

#31. Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

Robert Downey Jr.

#32. You will meet people who'll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm.

Gabby Rivera

#33. Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Norman Tebbit

#34. It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Norman Tebbit