Rab Butler quotes

Rab Butler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.”
-- Rab Butler

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“Politics is largely a matter of heart.”
-- Rab Butler

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“I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.”
-- Rab Butler

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“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.”
“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”
“I really hate it when I canâ€™t score runs from a ball.”
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”
“We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”
“I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.”
“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Source : "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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