More from Margaret Thatcher
Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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More on emotion
Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it’s not just a sports contest – a boxing match for money or belts.
Tyson FuryTyson Fury There are these emotions which are eager to scream aloud, but they settle inside us without a cry.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi Is it a blessing or is it a curse, to feel everything so deeply.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don’t show it. I know how to hide my emotions.
Lil TjayLil Tjay I opened the door to emptiness, traded my emotions for numbness.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.
Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.
Gary ZukavGary Zukav Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
David LynchDavid Lynch
