Quotes of the Week - Oct 12, 2008:
"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is now in a state of crisis,
but you get to keep $480 million. I have a very basic question for you:
Is this fair?" -- Henry Waxman, chairman of US House Oversight Committee,
questioning Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld over bank's collapse.
"Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so
imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their
own country." -- Sarah Palin, accusing Barack Obama of associating
with Bill Ayers, founder of Weather Underground, which was involved in
several bombings in early 1970s.
"We can solve this crisis — and we will." -- US President
George Bush, on economic crisis.
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Prince Charles Quotes, Famous Prince Charles Quotes, Quotations
A
monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant
friend. Prince Charles On proposed extension to National Gallery,
May 1984
All
the time I feel I must justify my existence. Prince Charles
At
the moment it looks as though London seems to be turning into
an absurdist picnic table - we already have a giant gherkin,
now it looks as if we are going to have an enormous salt cellar. Prince Charles On design for Renzo Piano's 1000ft "Shard
of Glass" London Bridge Tower, Speech, 2003
Conservation
must come before recreation. Prince Charles
Do
you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history
not to have a mistress? Prince Charles Quoted in The Daily Mail, 1994
I
just come and talk to the plants, really-very important to talk
to them, they respond I find. Prince Charles
I
know that my ideas are sometimes portrayed as old-fashioned.
Well, they may be. But what I am concerned about are the things
that are timeless regardless of the age that we live in. Also
I have been around long enough to see what were at the time
thought of as old-fashioned ideas now come into vogue. Prince Charles Speech, November 2004
If
English is spoken in heaven ... God undoubtedly employs Cranmer
as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably
use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative
Service Book for internal memos. Prince Charles Remark when judging a reading competition
Science
has tried to assume a monopoly - or, rather, a tyranny - over
our understanding of the world around us … We are only
now beginning to under the disastrous results of this outlook. Prince Charles Speech titled 'Sacred in the Modern World',
July 1996
Surely
the time has come to escape from an almost adolescent obsession
with being "modern" - the product, perhaps, of a 20th
century "teenage crisis"? - and, instead, to be more
concerned about being "human"! Prince Charles Speech on 'Local Identity in a Fast-Track
Age', November 2004
Sex
and the City
