Brilliant Quote by Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The Paralympian Chris Hallam, who has died aged 50, was one of the most influential athletes in the development of disability sport.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

“With a strange logic, [Rod Liddle] asserts that because ME patients deny that they have a psychiatric disorder, this proves they have a psychiatric…

— Tanya Marlow

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me:…

— Bonnie Tyler

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop…

— Brian Cox

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat…

— Bonnie Tyler

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

— Robert A. Heinlein

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,…

— Patrick Kavanagh

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

— Byron Dorgan

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have…

— Charles Wheelan

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

— Alan Clark