Top 790 Council Estates Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

When you grow up in a council flat, sometimes living on top of members of your crew, the feeling of community is intense.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Donald Trump is President of the United States and his National Security Council works for him. If he wants to fire someone, so be it.

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on a council estate.

The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.

Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what might be justified from the point of view of sanctions.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.