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

• Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Situation
  • Claims
  • Millions

• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  

  John Milton
  • Points
  • Grammar
  • Expert

• 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

• Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Quality
  • Beauty
  • Emotions

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

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

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consensus
  • Negotiations
  • Powerless