Dean Acheson Quotes

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

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• I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Way
  • Like

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

  

  Iman
  • Power
  • Know
  • Best

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Opinion

• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Age
  • Change
  • Retirement

• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Working
  • Possibilities

• I am married.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Married

• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Family
  • Think
  • Me

• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Deep
  • Goal
  • Path

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Problem
  • Will
  • Data

• The spirit walks of every day deceased.

  

  Edward Young

• Whatever exists, he the judge said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Knowledge
  • Judge

• I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

  

  John Bates Clark
  • Decision

• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Identity
  • Exciting
  • Codified

• When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Money

• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  

  Dean Acheson