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It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not h...
ALISTAIR DARLING The claimants' allegation of wrongdoing has been completely dismissed,
ALISTAIR DARLING Unless we look at that, we will have huge problems - absolute gridlock - in 20 or 30 years' time,
ALISTAIR DARLING Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of roa...
ALISTAIR DARLING We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestio...
ALISTAIR DARLING Today we are sending out a very clear message to those who drive without insurance - there is now no...
ALISTAIR DARLING already more severe than the rest of the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel...
ALISTAIR DARLING Snowfall in January is hardly unexpected,
ALISTAIR DARLING The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
ALISTAIR DARLING Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ...
ALISTAIR DARLING

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING The conservative movement as a whole is very upset right now.
BRIAN DARLING But those incidents, while they are interesting to the American people, are not issues that are impo...
BRIAN DARLING You do have a lot of personal attacks against the president, but they don't detract from the real is...
BRIAN DARLING It would have been impossible for the conservatives to win any of these fights without the president...
BRIAN DARLING Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
GRACE DARLING You fill up the 4Runner and it's like $50. And I fill up this thing and it's a lot less and you can ...
ALISON DARLING Our next car will be a hybrid as well.
ALISON DARLING They don't want to say they are going to see a psychiatrist.
HELEN DARLING I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.
GRACE DARLING The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.
GRACE DARLING She was like, it's going to cost me $100 dollars to drive my truck up there.' It might cost me six. ...
ALISON DARLING You can date a girl with mind control powers," he said sagely, "but stay alert. Make sure she's sayi...
T.R. DARLING If you are going to be any good, you have got to like the little swine
JAMES DARLING The panels of her corset were portals to deep space. With every waltz, her dance partner circled the...
T.R. DARLING Galaxies were mere tide pools. The empty space between them was a killing field of dark-matter preda...
T.R. DARLING True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
POLLYANNA DARLING Veterans do your part in informing colleagues and friends and put them in touch with VA services.
DEAN DARLING If Linn County had as many full time directors per capita as Winneshiek County, instead of three emp...
DEAN DARLING Although recommended, not required, we'd like members of the commission represent each combat action...
DEAN DARLING We don't want them (veterans) unaware or reluctant to seek out services for which they are entitled.
DEAN DARLING That's what we plan to do and we'll take this into consideration then.
DEAN DARLING It's been unbelievable the pain that I feel, knowing that literally half of my body is laying 6 feet...
DEVARD DARLING It's really been disappointing to see how long it's taken.
DEVARD DARLING We're very concerned about states taking steps like this, which really is a mandate on businesses. T...
HELEN DARLING Larry and I saw it different, so we got together and [reversed] it and got it right.
GARY DARLING We flipped it and got it right.
GARY DARLING We got together, (changed) it and got it right.
GARY DARLING There are rocks sitting around the steps that are actually parts of broken steps we are saving to re...
GARY DARLING I'm 60 years old and don't have a lot of time left. I love history and preservation, so I want to ex...
GARY DARLING I grew up here. These parks and hills were my playground, and I can't believe I never noticed these ...
GARY DARLING We had people out there playing hurt already, ... You see their heart that they were playing with. I...
JAMES DARLING It doesn't sound like it is any more than most corporations did 15 to 20 years ago. This isn't going...
HELEN DARLING There's no one in the business world who doesn't share the position that the U.S. health care system...
HELEN DARLING It's going to radically change medicine. The biggest problem in our country is that we don't have 21...
HELEN DARLING It has the potential to help lower both short-term and long-term health costs.
HELEN DARLING Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and product...
HELEN DARLING They don't like use or lose. They would rather pay with after-tax money than turn money back in.
HELEN DARLING We've created a nation of very entitled people who think they can have almost everything.
HELEN DARLING The average we see is more like $12,000 per family,
HELEN DARLING Maybe this is the missing piece. ... I like his philosophy: Run the ball, push the ball, but be smar...
HELEN DARLING He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.
HELEN DARLING He slipped her the inkwell. "This one is full of forbidden, outlawed words," he whispered. "Make sur...
T.R. DARLING Son of a poodle.
MICHAEL DARLING You can get feedback from your customers. You really couldn't pay enough to get that same quality of...
ROXANNE DARLING We're very proud that Toyota has expanded our partnership following the success of the Toyota Family...
SHARON DARLING

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job - acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean bac...
ALISTAIR COOKE

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mo...
ALISTAIR COOKE We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few day...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 2...
ALISTAIR HORNE

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow...
ALISTAIR COOKE

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratu...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a...
ALISTAIR COOKE

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any ge...
ALISTAIR COOKE We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE

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ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful w...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
ALISTAIR COOKE

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheer...
ALISTAIR COOKE Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to...
ALISTAIR HORNE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Ha...
ALISTAIR HORNE Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with ...
ALISTAIR HORNE Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week ...
ALISTAIR HORNE In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British di...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a th...
ALISTAIR HORNE In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crow...
ALISTAIR HORNE There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S....
ALISTAIR HORNE Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i...
ALISTAIR COOKE

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
ALISTAIR COOKE History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo,...
ALISTAIR HORNE I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
ALISTAIR MACLEAN Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Ag...
ALISTAIR HORNE I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towa...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly im...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, ...
ALISTAIR HORNE I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious ref...
ALISTAIR HORNE The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet
ALISTAIR HORNE Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ...
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR Green coffee stores up to three years. It does not deteriorate and can be kept until the price is ri...
ALISTAIR MACNAB The number of people already employed in the industry is in the thousands, and it's at all levels, i...
ALISTAIR MACNAB Houston is now on the coffee map where it wasn't before.
ALISTAIR MACNAB We're talking about a lot of homes.
ALISTAIR JACKSON Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build.
ALISTAIR JACKSON They wondered, if you cannot have everybody holding hands in perfect harmony like a 1970s Coca-Cola ...
ALISTAIR HUDSON Time does not, and shall never, equal experience.
ALISTAIR HARDING It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo...
ALISTAIR GOODMAN A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential electi...
ALISTAIR HORNE If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ...
ALISTAIR BEGG If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle...
ALISTAIR HUDSON All impressions are certainly not created equal. We tell our clients to beware of remnant inventory....
ALISTAIR GOODMAN These are hot button issues.
ALISTAIR JACKSON This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everyb...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked ...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation,...
ALISTAIR BEGG

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job-acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be pub...
ALISTAIR BEGG The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of referenc...
ALISTAIR PETRIE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. ...
ALISTAIR MCHARG I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-j...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxf...
ALISTAIR HORNE I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in Jun...
ALISTAIR HORNE Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the pr...
ALISTAIR URQUHART

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
ALISTAIR BEGG No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
CHARLES JOHN DARLING Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capabl...
WENDY ANNE DARLING

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

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