Top 1200 Modern Britain Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I hope that we will find a solution that leaves Britain as a partner in a lot of the European activities that we need them to be a partner in.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

Britain outside the E.U. would be less able to respond with the speed and strength we need to tackle complex and growing cross-border threats to all our communities.

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them.

In Britain, we have a vague idea that being by the sea does you good, clears your lungs and regenerates your system.

I don't remember too much about Britain's Davis Cup win in 2015 but I remember thinking what an unbelievable run.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part of a criminal's desperate struggle to stay in Britain.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.

We love the 'Britain's Got Talent' process, we love interacting and responding with the public, it's just good fun.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

The U.K. and India have a broad and exciting partnership that includes trade and investment, climate and energy, education, health and culture, reinforced by the large, vibrant Indian diaspora in Britain.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.

Most countries in the world are not in the E.U. I think Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, can cope with life outside.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.

There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they're on your side.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

The E.U. without Britain is like fish without chips.

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.

Part of the reason for doing 'Peaky Blinders,' apart from the fact that it was a personal story and I've always wanted to do it, was what was great I felt is that Birmingham is probably the least fashionable city in Britain.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.

It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

I have talked to my husband and asked him to come back and be with me more. He likes to stay in Britain and do what he likes to do.

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.

Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

I like being part of the Great Britain setup. I like feeling I'm at a race that is important and the pressure that goes with it.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

Labour are a danger to our security and our economy and are wholly incapable of negotiating the best Brexit deal for Britain.

A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

In times of crisis, the world looks to Britain not just for our work on the ground, but also for our leadership.

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?

Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.

It is just a great honour to be representing Great Britain.