Top 1200 Modern Britain Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

For centuries in Britain, the small-talk standby has been the weather.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

A dynamic Britain, free from the E.U., can be the greatest force of good in the world.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

Everyone goes on holiday in Britain. Even Hell's Angels.

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!

So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure that our systems of general education and technical education are in line with the job requirements that a more modern manufacturing and a more modern services sector would require.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

I love running in Britain. It has always been good for me.

I think James Norton is going to be one of the biggest stars in Britain.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth.

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine.

As for Glastonbury, it's the biggest festival there is in Britain, and I'm very pleased to be asked to do it.

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.

All I want is to keep boxing for Great Britain and inspire others.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

I want to stand up for Britain's national interests.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

We're caught in the pace of modern living - this emphasis on the "quick take," on the magazine that says it will take you eight minutes to read an article. It seems to me that here is a tendency that ought to be denied in part. Certain children do read in the past; they love the old language; they love the sound of words. I don't think it's good enough to say something is better because is it updated and modern.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.