Kofi Annan Quotes

Change is a process which has to be managed.

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• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Creative
  • New
  • Capitalism

• I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Home
  • Living
  • Once

• I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Love
  • Everybody
  • Anybody

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Career
  • Never

• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Work
  • Education
  • Goal

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • She
  • Sea

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

  

  Anais Nin

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Time

• Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Women
  • Funny

• I try to work out as much as I can and, of course, eat healthily. Drinking a lot of water, sweating during your work out is good for you, and of course, chasing after your kids!

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kids

• As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.

  

  Alex Smith
  • Job
  • Calm
  • Quarterback

• I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

  

  Jonathan Kellerman
  • Key
  • Locks
  • Opens

• Change is a process which has to be managed.

  

  Kofi Annan