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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell
Police
Earth
Sun
Cities
Lies
Atom
Through
Factories
Piling
Still
Up
Going
Round
Streaming
Bombs
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell
Food
Long
Run
Find
Weapon
Long Run
Than
May
The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
George Osborne
People
Free
Poverty
Single
Out
Lifted
Free Trade
Trade
Single Thing
Biggest
Thing
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
Gwendoline Christie
Love
True Love
You
Love Is
Wonderful
Rare
Whatever
Takes
True
Genuine
Cherished
Encounter
Wonderful Thing
Any
Form
Thing
Utterly
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Harold S. Geneen
People
Leader
Approach
True
Him
Policy
Genuine
His
Any
Afraid
Reason
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
J. G. Ballard
Dreams
Memories
Dark
Thrive
Power
Waters
Our
Minds
Staying
Staying Power
Like
Bed
Huge
Surviving
Decades
Sea
Deep
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
Dreams
Day
You
Vision
Become
One Day
Promise
Dream
Lofty
Prophecy
Shall
Ideal
Unveil
Your
Last
A man is literally what he thinks.
James Allen
Man
He
Literally
Thinks
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie
Wisdom
World
Never
Know
Until
Understand
How
Loss
Little
Need
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page
Day
Character
Me
Guitar
First
Own
Valid
Approach
Everyone
Strings
Out
Guitar Playing
About
Something
Picked
Since
Come
Another
Got
Amazed
Up
Person
Six
Different
Explain
Thing
Playing
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman
Man
Fault
Nothing
Would
Find
Could
No-One
He
Until
Well
Waited
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
Music
Loneliness
Invented
Human
Confirm
Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They're also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy - in fact, that's where I got the list.
Milo Yiannopoulos
Love
Emotions
Social Media
Outburst
Some
Pretty
Comprehensive
Shallow
Fact
Feel
Also
Frequent
Verbal
Genuine
Got
Stimulation
Encouraging
List
Behavioural
Controls
Just
Where
In Fact
Social
Poor
Us
Incapacity
Media
Things
Need
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Neville Chamberlain
War
Side
Winners
Call
Losers
Itself
May
Victor
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton
Alone
Strength
Needs
Man
Solitude
Depend
Weakness
Nerve
More
Crowd
He
Him
Mob
Than
Much
Who
Presence
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
Philip Green
Good
You
Technology
Bad
Indifferent
Investing
New
Left
New Technology
Going
Behind
Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
Richard E. Grant
Life
Never Give Up
You
Give
Only
Never
Go
Go For It
Up
Get
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
Robbie Williams
Life
Depression
Day
Me
You
Flu
My Life
Other
Kick
Worst
All Day
About
Having
Like
Woe
Just
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
Nature
Way
Only
Another
Making
Egg
Hen
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Great
You
Fool
Yourself
Dog
Will
Too
Pleasure
Only
Great Pleasure
He
Make
Him
Himself
Scold
May
Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.
Sarah Gavron
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Find
Support
Surround
Who
Champions
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
Library
Too
Must
Idea
Them
Full
Hard
Original
Original Idea
My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
Steve-O
Love
Faith
Fear
Focus
Has-Been
Main
Main Focus
Been
Replace
Sobriety
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
Theresa May
Life
Work
Failure
People
Problems
Poverty
Addiction
Tools
Solving
About
Tackling
Course
Educational
Debt
Antisocial
Get
Behaviour
Lacking
Need
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper
You
Woman
Age
Doctor
Ugly
Old
Old Age
Back
Says
Okay
Bad
Tells
Bad Back
Well
Opinion
Got
Want
Her
Second
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
Vidal Sassoon
Saying
You
Drunk
Sorry
Say
Okay
Feel
Really
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