Nigel Hamilton quote: "I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.
NIGEL HAMILTON

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy year...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else ca...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet di...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American po...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Ceza...
NIGEL HAMILTON

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin&#...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focu...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval g...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
NIGEL HAMILTON

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after t...
NIGEL HAMILTON

It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
NIGEL HAMILTON

Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculativ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation t...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to do...
NIGEL HAMILTON

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from p...
NIGEL FARAGE

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up wi...
NIGEL REES

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
NIGEL KNEALE

Brexit will happen.
NIGEL FARAGE

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
NIGEL FARAGE

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best...
NIGEL MANSELL

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus...
NIGEL MANSELL

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.
NIGEL LAWSON

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get th...
NIGEL MANSELL

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of driver...
NIGEL MANSELL

To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of g...
NIGEL OWENS

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look...
NIGEL FARAGE

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your o...
NIGEL KENNEDY

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the...
NIGEL LAWSON

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full ag...
NIGEL LAWSON

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
NIGEL FARAGE

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.
NIGEL BARKER

I once died my hair blonde, and it looked like an orangey-red carrot top. It was the '80s, and I...
NIGEL BARKER

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly in...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like C...
NIGEL KENNEDY

We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp...
NIGEL LAWSON

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoi...
NIGEL LAWSON

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure ...
NIGEL FARAGE

If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their f...
NIGEL FARAGE

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been train...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are ...
NIGEL FARAGE

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.
NIGEL FARAGE

There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've g...
NIGEL FARAGE

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....
NIGEL SLATER

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to ...
NIGEL FARAGE

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Ful...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe...
NIGEL FARAGE

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capt...
NIGEL BARKER

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...
NIGEL SLATER

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
NIGEL SHORT

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does n...
NIGEL FARAGE

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, s...
NIGEL FARAGE

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath awa...
NIGEL FARAGE

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
NIGEL FARAGE

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at th...
NIGEL REES

It is crucial to recognize that abortion is a symptom, not a disease. It is a very nasty symptom, it...
NIGEL CAMERON

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a perso...
NIGEL BARKER

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means...
NIGEL MANSELL

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It&#...
NIGEL FARAGE

My violin is called Kylie as she sounds great and is perfectly formed.
NIGEL KENNEDY

No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric st...
NIGEL KENNEDY

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.
NIGEL BARKER

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the p...
NIGEL LAWSON

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experienc...
NIGEL MANSELL

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand pri...
NIGEL MANSELL

Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain&#...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.
NIGEL FARAGE

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.
NIGEL LAWSON

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become ...
NIGEL FARAGE

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get ...
NIGEL DENNIS

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.
NIGEL FARAGE

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever...
NIGEL KENNEDY

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody...
NIGEL FARAGE

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's abo...
NIGEL FARAGE

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
NIGEL REES

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's rel...
NIGEL LAWSON

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
NIGEL FARAGE

I think the employer should be much freer to make decisions on who she or he employs.
NIGEL FARAGE

I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and A...
NIGEL FARAGE

The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept i...
NIGEL LAWSON

I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigest...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada...
NIGEL BARKER

This is so tiny it can go where no one has ever gone before. (Nano-particles) can cross the blood-br...
NIGEL CAMERON

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world fac...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think we are just rolling our sleeves up and working hard - that's what you've got to do in this l...
NIGEL WORTHINGTON

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is...
NIGEL FARAGE

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate ...
NIGEL FARAGE

That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.
NIGEL FARAGE

It is a victory for those who want fair, accountable and decent government in Northern Ireland, and ...
NIGEL DODDS

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I ...
NIGEL COLE

The remarks by Alec Reid are appalling and reveal a mindset which could be portrayed as deeply bigot...
NIGEL DODDS

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
NIGEL LAWSON

I need boy dancers to be strong, masculine!
NIGEL LYTHGOE

I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a ...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a...
NIGEL COLE

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar school...
NIGEL FARAGE

She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.
NIGEL WRIGHT

Predictions are a mug's game.
NIGEL FARAGE

McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.
NIGEL HOLLOWAY

Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’
NIGEL HOLLOWAY

A lot of hard work has been put into the show this year.
NIGEL HARMAN

I like sex, it makes the world go round.
NIGEL HARMAN

You've got to aim high and see where you land.
NIGEL HARMAN

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
NIGEL REES

The answer's an affirmative 'yes
NIGEL MANSELL

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge,
NIGEL MANSELL

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of ...
NIGEL MANSELL

I'm going to exercise a lot more, although when you get to a certain age you can injure yourself in ...
NIGEL MANSELL

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has n...
NIGEL MANSELL

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been pu...
NIGEL FARAGE

We live in a world in which everything seems to needed now and working quickly is normally viewed as...
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

But Europe has changed, fundamentally, since the early '90s. Now the countries to which these langua...
NIGEL CHAPMAN

Nigel met with the show's producers and decided he has taken Dennis as far as he can.
NIGEL HARMAN

You have to face your fears and challenge them head on, or your psychological land mines will blow u...
NIGEL JEAL

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, ...
NIGEL KENNEDY

New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Hou...
NIGEL GOSLIN

We had hoped Dwayne would make it for Wasps but in the end he is another two weeks away from being f...
NIGEL DAVIES

You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a volunta...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think that, given that some people feel very embarrassed by it, it isn't too difficult to brea...
NIGEL FARAGE

The expansion of Central Europe's industrial and logistics sectors has put an eastern 'stretch' in E...
NIGEL ROWE

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. W...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

It's absolutely staggering that we have sold so many tickets. It's recognition of the fact that play...
NIGEL CLOUGH

You can't learn pathos or profundity.
NIGEL KENNEDY

This just happens to be a fresh attempt to bring in some of the icons of the young and the apolitica...
NIGEL FARAGE

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're ...
NIGEL COLE

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adve...
NIGEL KENNEDY

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
NIGEL WARBURTON

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy...
NIGEL LAWSON

My goal is to play all four years and maybe make a college football team. But right now, I just hope...
NIGEL HALL

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantag...
NIGEL KENNEDY

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to s...
NIGEL FARAGE

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
NIGEL DENNIS

Commuter trains are packed with voyeurs of a similar bent.
NIGEL ANDREW

You do not need to be a millionaire to feel successful or be successful. Financial wealth is only on...
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

We believe this framework will enable Royal Mail to invest in the business, meet its obligations to ...
NIGEL STAPLETON

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we a...
NIGEL FARAGE

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's a...
NIGEL FARAGE

Right now the Constitution is mere paper, with no bearing upon the British people, although they mig...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for ...
NIGEL FARAGE

Although I never wanted Theresa May to be our Prime Minister, I had been prepared to give her the be...
NIGEL FARAGE

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
NIGEL BARKER

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
NIGEL LAWSON

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When ...
NIGEL REES

God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own...
NIGEL LAWSON

I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these...
NIGEL FARAGE

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
NIGEL KENNEDY

Boethius, dunyada adaletin yokmus gibi gorunmesine hayiflanir. Cogu kez iyiler ve erdemliler aci cek...
NIGEL WARBURTON

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and noctur...
NIGEL DENNIS

But how do you come ‘offline’ when so much of our daily lives is moving ‘online’? Every mont...
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If yo...
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achiev...
NIGEL MCDOWELL

But remember this: no journey can be made without the risk of stepping into the dark.
NIGEL MCDOWELL

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
NIGEL FARAGE

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement...
NIGEL FARAGE

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us...
NIGEL FARAGE

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
NIGEL FARAGE

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
NIGEL FARAGE

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.
NIGEL FARAGE

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
NIGEL FARAGE

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's abo...
NIGEL FARAGE

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.
NIGEL WARBURTON

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventur...
NIGEL KENNEDY

We wanted a single point of contact to record all incoming or outgoing correspondence related to a p...
NIGEL KELLY

So far the strike is having little impact on services and London Underground is running full service...
NIGEL HOLNESS

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

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I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

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