Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Payne

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

David Steel

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

Narendra Modi

If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.

Narendra Modi

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Lucy Powell

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Michel Martelly

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

Theresa May

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

Terry Pratchett

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Annie Lennox

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Don Rittner

The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

Dallas Willard

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.

Narendra Modi

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

Narendra Modi

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

Narendra Modi

In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways...We need both Information Ways and Highways.

Narendra Modi

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

Narendra Modi

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

H. Hunt

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

John Berger

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.