Best 19 quotes of Clifford Thurlow on MyQuotes

Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.

Dust. You forget about the dust. It hangs over the landscape like a ragged curtain. It scratches your throat. The air tastes of sulphur, saltpetre, cordite, burning rubber and burning oil from the pipelines and wells sabotaged by ISIS to disrupt aerial surveillance.

Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

How you live your life is a question of choices. You must do your best to make the right ones and make sure you fix it when you don’t.

It is a curse not speaking languages and in a broken world more important than ever before.

Not all the young women recruited to holy war had their feet caned by the moral police. There were those who held the canes.

One way to ruin your life is to have dreams bigger than your abilities.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don’t know someone, they’re probably not worth knowing.

Porn is like sex without orgasm, compulsive without being satisfying.

The grating cry of the muezzin from the mosques at sunrise wakes people from their sleep and puts them on edge for the rest of the day.

The past is dust. It disappears behind us. There is no way back.

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.

The secret of success isn't knowing what you want, it is knowing what you don't want.

The world only stays in balance when good people do what’s right.

Time is like an aeroplane after take off. It is always moving and only goes in one direction.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

Two Englishmen meeting for the first time instantly seek the differences between them, the doubts and reservations, the message in the other’s accent.

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.