Jack Straw Quotes

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I want to go down in history.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • History
  • Want
  • Down

• Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Fear
  • Hair

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• My inspiration is love and history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Inspiration

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • History
  • Weird

• If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Live
  • History
  • You

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • History
  • Forever

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Only at the very center of pain or joy was one wholly wretched, wholly joyful. There was only one hour of the night in which sunset or dawn was not present to the mind in memory or hope, only one hour of the day when the sun seemed neither rising nor declining, and the intensity of those hours dulled and blinded.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Joy

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  

  P. D. James
  • Child
  • Give
  • Later

• The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Up
  • Book
  • Power

• No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Peace

• We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

  

  Jack Straw
  • History
  • Negotiations
  • Accession