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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

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice. — Alex Morrison

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON? — Kristin Cashore

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

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation. — Sun Tzu

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

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it. — Karen Kain

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

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too. — Bobby Knight

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

Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council. — Faramir

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

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. — Ayn Rand

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head! — Elizabeth I

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

Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council? — Joseph Fink

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

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council. — Epictetus

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."
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"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

The Council of Schools has said that there are no mysteries. — Ayn Rand

Vampyre High Council. Wasn't clueing them in to that a little more important — P.C. Cast

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

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"Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of Grey's Anatomy, X-ray vision, and a stethoscope. — Jim Butcher

Office of the Vice President ... The Council on Competativeness. — Dan Quayle

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

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. — Ayn Rand

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council. — Martin Luther

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. — Chanakya

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. — Dora Russell

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad. — Jim Butcher

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. — Gary Weiss

Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house. — Anton Du Beke

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ? — Horace

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais

Remind your council that the sins of the fathers aren't that of the sons. — Amelia Hutchins

The Council's expanding the refuges, at least, but it's still nonsensical. — Francesca Haig

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

Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. — Black Kettle

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

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command. — Steve Blake

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

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action. — Paul Weller

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

His Majesty doesn't even visit the privy except on the advice of the Privy Council. — Dave Duncan

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

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. — Caitlin Moran

There's no way to phrase this other than bluntly. Master Vos - the Council wants you to assassinate Count Dooku. — Christie Golden

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. — Herbert Hoover

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay

In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. — Joseph Smith Jr.