Quotes
My father, and his father, also Geoffrey, were both master house painters and decorators, the latter, youngest of twelve children having migrated from Boroughbridge in Yorkshire about 1880.
I used to play around in their small laboratory as well as go with my uncle on visits to various chemical companies.
I began to return to my first interest as a student - transition metal complexes such as carbonyls and olefin complexes.
My post-Sydney goals are to become a much better player and person.
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
If they hadn't scored, we would've won.
I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.
The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
Dreams are a reflection of what you value and believe.
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.
Wendell L. Wilkie
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell L. Wilkie
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.