Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Why
  • Government

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Streets
  • Hot

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Away

• Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Discipline

• The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Way
  • Build

• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • High
  • Education
  • California

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Real
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Road

• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Good

• That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Serious

• La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Action

• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Glory
  • Defend

• I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Job
  • Worry

• When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

  

  Dennis Wholey
  • Enjoy
  • Potential
  • Surface

• The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Kids
  • Winner

• Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Men
  • Success

• Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej