"To hurry through the rise and fall of……" — Kenneth Clarke
"To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life."
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34 Quotes by Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Clarke has 34 quotes on this site.
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of…
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I have never read it. You should not waste your time.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get…
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Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place…
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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself…
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The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty,…
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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
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I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
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Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the…
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The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the…
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However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of…
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I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want…
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More Defying Quotes
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one of 67 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees…
— Unknown Author
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Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away,…
— Richard Bangs
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For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange…
— Don Berliner
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The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are…
— Bill Hybels
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Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to…
— Tom Wells
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Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time…
— Dave Beard
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I keep defying the odds, you know.
— Bubba Watson
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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and…
— Joseph Sobran
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