"Politics is never a victory, it's just the……" — Robert Harris
"Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events."
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62 Quotes by Robert Harris
Robert Harris has 62 quotes on this site.
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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling…
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Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting…
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in…
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound.…
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The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most…
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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
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Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for…
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only…
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to…
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More Events Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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