Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

• Peace
• Never
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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Done
  • Past

• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Together
  • Help
  • Waiting

• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Team
  • Football
  • Never

• I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Horrible

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Party
  • Building

• I'm not into the attention thing so much.

  

  Flume
  • Attention
  • Thing
  • Much

• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Gift

• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Start

• London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • School
  • Cool
  • London

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  

  Tadeusz Kantor
  • Time

• Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

  

  Carl Whitaker
  • Marriage
  • Battle
  • Reproduce

• Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Time
  • Live
  • Lost

• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • God
  • Nature
  • Today

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet