Top 1200 British Airways Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating yourself than in German.
Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer.
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
I know British stadiums from my time with Barcelona and Villarreal. The atmosphere is phenomenal, and my first match at Anfield will be very emotional.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.
It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.
The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.
The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.
I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.
The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?
George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
My message to Thunberg and all of her British counterparts is simple: the Labour party's door is open. We hear you, and we will work with you to do what needs to be done.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.
The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.
The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising their home, their children or their pets.
'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.
The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.
