Top 790 Council Estates Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Don't give up. Listen to others, but follow your own council.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other's rooms and, at weekends, each other's estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.

I grew up on a council estate. No one was working in our house.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.

If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.