Wes Streeting Quotes

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Art
  • Interesting

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Because
  • I Can
  • Camera

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Desire

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Heart

• One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Game
  • Serious
  • Boys

• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Past
  • Fight
  • View

• Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Running
  • Chance
  • Conversation

• Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Masters

• The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

  

  Roberta Smith
  • Baseball
  • NASCAR
  • Obsessions

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Mom

• DMT raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Events
  • Intense

• You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

  

  Wes Streeting
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  • Labour
  • Colleagues