Portal:Scotland/Selected quote/2007
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[edit] Weeks in 2007
- Week 16
| “ | ...Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well - being wise enough to know when it's time to listen... | ” |
| “ | ...I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance... | ” |
- Week 17
| “ | ...Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well - being wise enough to know when it's time to listen... | ” |
| “ | ...I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance... | ” |
- Week 18
| “ | ...I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.... | ” |
| “ | ...People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon... | ” |
- Week 19
| “ | ...I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.... | ” |
| “ | ...People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon... | ” |
- Week 20
| “ | ...I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond. I could swim, and fly, and walk, and have three wives, and everything I wanted. But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible... | ” |
| “ | ...Reporter: Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad? Strachan: I don't care, I'm Scottish. Reporter: Gordon if you were English? Strachan: I'd top myself.... |
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- Week 21
| “ | ...I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond. I could swim, and fly, and walk, and have three wives, and everything I wanted. But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible... | ” |
| “ | ...Reporter: Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad? Strachan: I don't care, I'm Scottish. Reporter: Gordon if you were English? Strachan: I'd top myself.... |
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- Week 22
| “ | ...Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue... |
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| “ | ...I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels.... | ” |
- Week 23
| “ | ...Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue... |
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| “ | ...I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels.... | ” |
- Week 24
| “ | ...Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well - being wise enough to know when it's time to listen... | ” |
| “ | ...I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance... | ” |
- Week 25
| “ | ...Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well - being wise enough to know when it's time to listen... | ” |
| “ | ...I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance... | ” |
- Week 26
| “ | ...I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.... | ” |
| “ | ...People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon... | ” |
- Week 27
| “ | ...I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.... | ” |
| “ | ...People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon... | ” |
- Week 28
| “ | ...I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond. I could swim, and fly, and walk, and have three wives, and everything I wanted. But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible... | ” |
| “ | ...Reporter: Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad? Strachan: I don't care, I'm Scottish. Reporter: Gordon if you were English? Strachan: I'd top myself.... |
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- Week 29
| “ | ...I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond. I could swim, and fly, and walk, and have three wives, and everything I wanted. But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible... | ” |
| “ | ...Reporter: Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad? Strachan: I don't care, I'm Scottish. Reporter: Gordon if you were English? Strachan: I'd top myself.... |
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- Week 30
| “ | ...I have not yet begun to fight!... | ” |
| “ | ...Devolution will kill nationalism stone dead.... | ” |
- Week 31
| “ | ...I have not yet begun to fight!... | ” |
| “ | ...Devolution will kill nationalism stone dead.... | ” |
- Week 32
| “ | ...Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.... ("To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.") |
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| “ | ...There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.... | ” |
- Week 33
| “ | ...Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.... ("To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.") |
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| “ | ...There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.... | ” |
- Week 34
| “ | ...You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste.... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
| “ | ...We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.... | ” |
- Week 35
| “ | ...You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste.... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
| “ | ...We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.... | ” |
- Week 36
| “ | ...Aye, I'm telling ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.... | ” |
- — Attributed to Sir Harry Lauder
| “ | ...I fear that the development of the railways will destroy the need for waterproof coats.... | ” |
- Week 37
| “ | ...Aye, I'm telling ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.... | ” |
- — Attributed to Sir Harry Lauder
| “ | ...I fear that the development of the railways will destroy the need for waterproof coats.... | ” |
- Week 38
| “ | ...He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.... | ” |
| “ | ...You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass.... | ” |
- Week 39
| “ | ...He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.... | ” |
| “ | ...You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass.... | ” |
- Week 40
| “ | ... Every line of strength in American history is a line coloured with Scottish blood. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The result of our present enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. ... | ” |
- — James Hutton on the immensity of geological time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Week 41
| “ | ... Every line of strength in American history is a line coloured with Scottish blood. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The result of our present enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. ... | ” |
- — James Hutton on the immensity of geological time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Week 42
| “ | ... Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. ... |
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| “ | ... Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. ... | ” |
- — Mary Queen of Scots to the commissioners appointed to her trial in England
- Week 43
| “ | ... Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. ... |
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| “ | ... Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. ... | ” |
- — Mary Queen of Scots to the commissioners appointed to her trial in England
- Week 44
| “ | ... Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Work is the grand cure of all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ... | ” |
- Week 45
| “ | ... Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Work is the grand cure of all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ... | ” |
- Week 46
| “ | ... All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it’s the bully that rules. ... | ” |
- Week 47
| “ | ... All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it’s the bully that rules. ... | ” |
- Week 48
| “ | ... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in. ... | ” |
- Week 49
| “ | ... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in. ... | ” |
- Week 50
| “ | ... Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. ... | ” |
| “ | ... We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ... | ” |
- Week 51
| “ | ... Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. ... | ” |
| “ | ... We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ... | ” |
- Week 52
| “ | ... We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. ... | ” |
- — Voltaire
| “ | ... Many a clever boy is flogged into a dunce and many an original composition corrected into mediocrity ... | ” |
