Wiltshire Independent Group - Group of Independent councillors sitting on the Wiltshire County and District Council and affiliated with the Wessex Regional Group of Independents.
Trust me, I'm a doctor - BBC News profile of Dr Richard Taylor, Independent MP for Wyre Forest who was elected on a platform of fighting cuts to Kidderminster Hospital.
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern - The campaign to maintain emergency health care facilities at Kidderminster Hospital which has elected Dr. Richard Taylor as an independent MP as well as a majority of the local council.
Hawkwell Residents - A registered political party for local elections in Hawkwell, Essex. Politically neutral in relation to the three main parties. Its representatives are described as Independent. Formed 15 March 2001. Party Leader is John Mason.
People Against Bureaucracy Action Group - A group of Independent councillors in the Cheltenham area who promote keeping party politics out of local government.
Fawzi for Brent East - Independent candidate standing for public services, not war.
Vote Joe McAleer - The policies of a man who wants to be Prime Minister.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Independents "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Independents
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Independents "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Independents
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Independents There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Independents
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Independents It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Independents
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Independents We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Independents
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Independents The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Independents
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Independents I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Independents
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Independents A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Independents
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Independents I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Independents
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Independents War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Independents
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Independents There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Independents
