Charles Clarke (Charles Rodway Clarke) Quotes

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

Charles Clarke

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Intelligent

• My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Mom
  • Years
  • Old

• We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Wish
  • Problem

• According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

  

  Vanity
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Universe

• Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Blue

• Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • World
  • Nature
  • College

• That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Mistake

• Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

  

  Donna Karan
  • Positive

• One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Life
  • School
  • Kids

• The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Up

• Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

  

  Lizzie Andrew Borden
  • Father
  • Kitchen

• I'm really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I'm making both countries proud as WWE champion.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Proud
  • Champion

• A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Family
  • Money
  • Father

• People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Obsession

• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

  

  Charles Clarke
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Reason