William Hague Quotes

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

William Hague

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• Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Something
  • Policy
  • Become

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Stay

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Policy
  • India
  • United

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Pretty
  • Optimistic
  • Call

• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Policy

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Policy
  • Cuba

• All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Guided

• Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Russian

• Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Company
  • Policy
  • Forgive

• We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Criticism
  • Laws
  • Divine

• I want to work and be happy.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Work
  • Happy

• ...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God

  

  Albert Ayler
  • Music
  • God
  • Creation

• KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Kiss Me

• Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Want
  • Destiny
  • Gives

• I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

  

  William Hague
  • Policy
  • Realism
  • Idealism