“Big talkers have a greater tendency to compromise you than the string, silent types who aren't so eager to transmit the latest insider gossip. You have to think about those characteristics.”
Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 118
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Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1948Related quotes
[http://www.kimwilde.com/articles/1981/00244/ New Musical Express (19 September 1981)
Interviews
“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 291
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
“It's okay. You aren't my type.
What's your type?
Someone who gets into less trouble.”
Source: Hunt the Moon
Everyone has it. You can drown it in booze or say it doesn't exist, or insist that you don't feel guilt, but it is still something you have. This is because it's not a feeling; it's a condition.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), Ch. XV
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Misattributed
Source: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>
TV Interview for Channel 4 A Week in Politics (1 February 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105955
Second term as Prime Minister