Council Quotes
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Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
— Michelle Obama
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
— Howard Gordon
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.
— Alex Morrison
The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.
— Mark Dunn
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
— William Wycherley
If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.
— Ali Larijani
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
— Jonathan Franzen
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The rest of the Council nodded in agreement, except Terik and Oralie, and - quite surprisingly - Bronte. She only had three supporters,
— Shannon Messenger
The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.
— Neal Stephenson
I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
— Natalie Massenet
I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
— Jim Butcher
Don't take too much council from your fears.
— James E. Faust
Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin.
— Kristen Reed
Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
— Laura Miller
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
— Richard Attenborough
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
— Orson Pratt
The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.
— Noam Chomsky
And while the Council generally tolerates murder, it finds murder for hire distasteful.
— Molly Harper
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
— Neville Marriner
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I was an officer in my student council.
— Niki Tsongas
The council is old school. Really, really old school.
— Jim Butcher
Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.
— Terry Pratchett
But for what reason? Council,
— David Baldacci
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
— Mason Cooley
President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.
— Nostradamus
Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim and the blind.
— George Martin
And as for the Council - tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The
— Arthur C. Clarke
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
— Isabel Allende
Council to go through with
— C. Baely
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
— Fidel Castro
Pope John's advisers were worried about the freedom to speak and to come and go to and from the council.
— Ian Mortimer
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
— Jim Butcher
Cool," I said. "You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.
— Richelle Mead
I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
— Antonio Villaraigosa
As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?"
"Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. — Jim Butcher
The Council!" Ingrid yelped."The oracle doesn't knock," Freya scoffed. — Melissa De La Cruz
Council of Nicea had
— Jeff Lindsay
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
— Lou Engle
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
— D. Todd Christofferson
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
— Sarah Waters
I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
— Kristin Cashore
The Senior Council"
"Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of Grey's Anatomy, X-ray vision, and a stethoscope. — Jim Butcher
He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.
— Lindsey Davis
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
— George Carey
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
— Grantland Rice
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
— Kofi Annan
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
— Dora Russell
Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
— Anton Du Beke
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
— Anatoly Chubais
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
— Francis Bacon
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
— Jane Alexander
If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.
— Oscar De La Renta
Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart.
— Lynsey Hanley
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
— Terry Pratchett
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
— Dante Alighieri
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?
— Christopher Hitchens
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
— Mary Doria Russell
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
— Hassan Nasrallah
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
— Chief Joseph
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
— Germaine Greer
Councils of War never fight.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
— Evangeline Lilly
sought the council of his tribe. When did my people decide to let one person rule without question?
— Tam Linsey
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
— Julian Castro
