A Quote by Ryan Shawcross

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Ryan Shawcross

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Humbug Let Us Us World

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Ryan Shawcross
English - Soccer player
Born: October 4, 1987

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

P. D. James

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Robert Mugabe

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Alex Kapranos

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Katharine Hepburn

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

George Eliot

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

Jack LaLanne

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

Josh Billings

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Carl Sagan

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

Hermann Hesse

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Edwina Currie

Even those of us who do not understand the nuances of economics have come to accept that reform cannot be bloodless. We are often impatient with the predictable, do-gooder campaigns against development. We argue passionately against the humbug protests of those who never want the poor to get rich.

Barkha Dutt

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.