Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.Dag Hammarskjold
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland -
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince -
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
Ulrich Beck -
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
Dan Hill -
In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
Ze Frank -
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
Karolyn Grimes -
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
Carl Lewis -
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
J. D. Hayworth
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
Yancy Butler -
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Aaron Eckhart -
I enjoy money.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
Ralph Macchio -
People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
J. J. Abrams -
It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
Mal Peet
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As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.
Jennifer Coolidge -
In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
Marilyn Monroe -
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
Lynn Good -
There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.
Nelson Mandela -
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield -
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag Hammarskjold