QUOTES OF THE WEEK
The family were all waiting down there and were safe, but then they started choking. The twins suddenly began shaking and struggling to breathe. Then he watched the chemicals take hold of his wife, then his brother, nieces and nephews. Everyone died down there in the basement. A cousin explains how supermarket cashier Abdulhamid al-Youssef (29) lost his nine-month-old twins, his wife and 16 other members of his family in the chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.
I believe Brexit is going to be painful for Britain, I believe it’s going to be painful, potentially, for Ireland. I believe Brexit was a bad decision, but of course as a democrat I fully respect and recognise the will and wishes of the British people. We’ve got to deal with that now. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan TD spells it out.
It was never a love affair, certainly no wild passion. It was a marriage of convenience. Guy Verhofstadt, chief Brexit negotiator for the EU, saying goodbye to Britain.
When I first said to a teacher at school I wanted to go to university when I was older, she told me that I should aim a little lower and suggested I try hairdressing instead. The British Old Bailey’s first non-white circuit judge, Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC.
Getting rid of technology wouldn’t be a bad thing — there are simple things, like writing, that we aren’t prepared to do any more. Actor Ian McShane.
I’m not ashamed of my body in any way, it’s just a body. I have breasts like every woman and everything else that comes with my body is just my body. For me, the shock of it isn’t really there. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to get my kit off for any part that requires it. It has to feel appropriate. Actress Nathalie Emmanuel on nude scenes.
When I was brought up, if we saw two elderly people walking along, we’d move aside to let them pass. I used to think, ‘When I’m old, people will do it for me’. But they bloody well don’t. Michael Bond, 91, creator of Paddington Bear.
I don’t feel any ill will towards him. I don’t know what he was feeling or thinking or anything that had been going on in his life, so I can’t relate. American tourist Melissa Cochran, whose husband Kurt was killed in the London terror attack on Westminster Bridge, saying she bore no hate towards his killer, Khalid Masood.
When I was in the band Ugly Rumours, if we had had social media at that time, I would certainly not have been prime minister. Former British premier Tony Blair explaining that social media would have concentrated on “bad stuff ” in his life.