I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories,… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
