Macmillan Harold Quotes

#1. At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#2. I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#3. He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#4. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#5. It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#6. If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#7. When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#8. We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#9. 90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#10. Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#11. No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#12. Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#13. Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#14. I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#15. We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#16. I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#17. It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#18. As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#19. There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#20. It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#21. I'd like that translated if I may.

British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan
on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly on 29th September 1960 #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#22. It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#23. Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#24. He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#25. (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#26. The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#27. I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#28. It's no use crying over spilt summits. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#29. Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#30. You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#31. We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#32. I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#33. If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#34. A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#35. After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#36. Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#37. One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#38. Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. #Quote by Harold Macmillan

#39. If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that ... My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of ... and we care very much about each other. #Quote by Harold S. Kushner

#40. We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family. #Quote by Harold Taylor

#41. I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off. #Quote by Harold Ramis

#42. Harold had become, over the past week, a connoisseur of silences. He was an expert at differentiating the particulars; was this a Tranquil Silence, marked by slow sighs and peaceful smiles? Or was it a Tired Silence, marked by ornery chair shifting? Or a Tense Silence, full of tight breaths and cautious glances? #Quote by Graham Moore

#43. In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness. #Quote by Harold Klemp

#44. I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it. #Quote by Harold Ramis

#45. I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point. #Quote by Harold Ford, Jr.

#46. The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. #Quote by Harold Rosenberg

#47. Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes. #Quote by Edward Harold Begbie

#48. I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you. #Quote by Harold Pinter

#49. A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence. #Quote by Harold Holzer

#50. Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes. #Quote by Harold Washington

#51. Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight. #Quote by Harold B. Lee

#52. The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it. #Quote by Harold Ford, Jr.

#53. I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own. #Quote by Harold Bloom

#54. So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these very gatherings. I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. Oh yes, I'm afraid so. No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham! #Quote by Brian Blessed

#55. The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it. #Quote by Harold S. Kushner

#56. Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts. #Quote by Harold S. Kushner

#57. A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a fort out of them. Children project souls into their favorite stuffed animals and commune with them in the way adults commune with religious icons. Years later he would remember a happy childhood, but it was interwoven with painful separations, confusions, misapprehensions, traumas, and mysteries. This is why all biographies are inadequate; they can never capture the inner currents. This is why self knowledge is limited. Only a few remarkable people can sense the way early experience has built models in the brain. Later in life we build fictions and theories to paper over the mystery of what is happening deep inside, but in childhood, the inexplicableness of the world is still vivid and fresh, and sometimes hits with terrifying force. #Quote by David Brooks

#58. If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given. #Quote by Harold Klemp

#59. Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. #Quote by Tony Campolo

#60. Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden #Quote by Harold Bloom

#61. Duty?" Kahlan wiped a hand across her face. "Harold, you can't blindly follow that woman's whim. The route to life and liberty exists only through reason. She may be queen, but reason can be your only true sovereign. To fail to use reason in this, to fail to think, is intellectual anarchy. #Quote by Terry Goodkind

#62. The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds. #Quote by Harold Laski

#63. Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well. #Quote by Harold Bloom

#64. The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe. #Quote by Harold Innis

#65. British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests. #Quote by Margaret MacMillan

#66. Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. #Quote by Harold Rosenberg

#67. Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.) #Quote by Harold S. Kushner

#68. Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage. #Quote by Harold Prince

#69. It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical. #Quote by Harold Prince

#70. If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love dramas or power dramas, or a combination of the two. In his Histories, the poet handles the power problem primarily, the love interest being decidedly incidental. In the Comedies, it is the other way around, overwhelmingly in the lighter ones, distinctly in the graver ones, except in Troilus and Cressida
hardly comedy at all
where without full integration something like a balance is maintained. In the Tragedies both interests are important, but Othello is decidedly a love drama and Macbeth as clearly a power drama, while in Hamlet and King Lear the two interests often alternate rather than blend. #Quote by Harold Clarke Goddard

#71. You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. #Quote by Harold H. Greene

#72. Lincoln may have shown how relieved he was that there had been none of the "outrage and violence" some had predicted in New York when a giant of a man neared him, and someone in the crowd cried out, "That's Tom Hyer," the retired prizefighter who had won fame with a 101-round victory years before. To which the president-elect replied, to much laughter: "I don't care, so long as he don't hit me. #Quote by Harold Holzer

#73. The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case for just running everything. Just run it! That's one of the advantages of the web, you can run everything - but you don't help the reader find out what's important. #Quote by Harold Evans

#74. We not only have today; we have all the yesterdays we are capable of remembering and all the tomorrows we can envision. #Quote by Harold S. Kushner

#75. Feel this," says Harold Bazin, and crouches and brings her hand to a curved wall which is completely studded with snails. Hundreds of them. Thousands.
"So many," she whispers.
"I don't know why. Maybe because they're safe from gulls? Here, feel this, I'll turn it over." Hundreds of tiny, squirming hydraulic feet beneath a horny, ridged top: a sea star. "Blue mussels here. And here's a dead stone crab, can you feel his claw? #Quote by Anthony Doerr