Kofi Annan Quotes

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • History
  • Age
  • Disasters

• It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Night
  • Car
  • Driving

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Artist

• Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • You
  • Wall

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Well
  • Editor

• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Why
  • Know
  • Running

• Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up

• And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Teach

• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Failure

• I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Fighting