Jack Straw Quotes

There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

Jack Straw

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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Things
  • Accept
  • Absolutely

• In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Noble
  • Powerless

• Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Business

• 'Why is everyone here so happy except me?' 'Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,' said the Master. 'Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?' 'Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Why
  • Happy

• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• (The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Community

• When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Fighting
  • Baby

• The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

  

  Win Butler
  • World
  • Work
  • Health

• I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

  

  Anne Waldman
  • Up

• What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Money

• The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Career

• The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.

  

  Kwame Nkrumah

• It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Luck

• In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act. ... I used to say to people that it was a combination of 'marionettes' and 'puppets.' ... But then I stopped telling this lie, and I'm back to the truth: It just came out of midair.

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Truth

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

  

  Jack Straw
  • History
  • Negotiations
  • Accession

• The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Morning
  • Position
  • Iran

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• What will you create that will make the world more awesome?

  

  Brad Montague
  • Create
  • Awesome

• If Abu Mazen wins, I'm afraid there will be payback time. Lots of people will expect to see him deliver different things on different fronts to different addresses.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Abu Mazen

• I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Values
  • Models
  • Agendas

• The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.

  

  David H. Hubel
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Function

• There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consensus
  • Negotiations
  • Powerless