We have a high standard of living. . . . In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.
All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.
Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream. ” “Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said. Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?” “It hurt,” Sebastian bit off. Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.