Clare Short Quotes

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

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• I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Family
  • Support
  • Doing

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Home
  • Car

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Divine
  • Works
  • Slaves

• My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Think

• You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • You
  • Hold

• Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Children
  • Why

• I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Think
  • Want

• The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Church

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Free
  • Law
  • Poverty

• In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Important

• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Democracy

• Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Helping

• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Anger
  • Meanness

• It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Sports

• I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

  

  Clare Short
  • Truth
  • Democracy
  • British