Jan Egeland Quotes

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Jan Egeland

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• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Sacrifice
  • Security

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • World
  • Energy
  • Market

• The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Judiciary

• You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Theater
  • Broadway

• The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • History
  • Intelligent

• My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Process

• Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Friends
  • Wife
  • Living

• Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Different
  • Together
  • History

• The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Moon

• I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Nature
  • Me
  • Grow

• Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men

• 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die

• That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

  

  Larry Wall

• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Mad

• Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Energy
  • Food

• I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Women
  • Stop

• Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.

  

  Pim Fortuyn

• Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

  

  Jan Egeland