“I was listening to the wind that walks in the hour;
I never would have heard in the candlelight
I was hoping… would you shelter me from showers?
I believe every word in the candlelight…”
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
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English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953Related quotes
“I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.”
As quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith in The New York Times (9 January 1966)
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“I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.”
Speech to the House of Lords http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108314 rejecting the Maastricht Treaty (7 June 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial
Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.
Satya, January, 2001 http://www.satyamag.com/jan01/newkirk.html.
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