Adolescence Quote by Aneurin Bevan Download Open image “He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.” — Aneurin Bevan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adolescence Men Political Politics Suffering Youth
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life. — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
“Mr. Young hadn't had to quiet a screaming baby for years. H'ed never been much good at it to start with. He'd always respected… — Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the forbidden book, in a room with no telescreen, had not worn off. Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze… — George Orwell Copy Share
“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“He still had the young person’s predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social… — Mary Pipher Copy Share
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. — Bob Phillips Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image