A. N. Wilson People Quotations

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I think the people we are counting on to step up will be ready to go.

People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

We are excited to have John attend the event, ... It gives local people an opportunity to meet him in an informal setting and getting to know John is getting to appreciate what an outstanding premier he can be for our province.

The whole key for us is to weather the storm of the first four minutes. We have to keep our composure and the good thing is that a lot of people will be cheering for the underdog against a traditional power.

The ones that are flagging up the 'no' vote are the ones that haven't suffered in this war, ... And the realism about it is that the people that have suffered in this war are most of the people that are saying 'yes.'

If he had put the right people in jail, he would have been forgiven a lot. He is an insider. He prefers compromise.

I do know of people that I know personally that have spent $20,000, $30,000 in one night in the clubs in Manhattan,