Events Quote by David Blunkett Download Open image “I have always been honest about my recollection of events.” — David Blunkett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Honest Memory Recollection Truth
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my… — Kesha Copy Share Image
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
