E.K. Blair Quotes

You can't listen to the news. You have to go with the facts. You need to use a logical approach and have the discipline to apply it. You must be able to control your emotions.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.

Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.