Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes

Human and societal security should be seen as complementary to state security, and security must be thought of in multi-sum and multi-dimensional terms (human, national, transnational, environmental and transcivilisational).

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• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Work
  • Done
  • Today

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Horse
  • Lady

• I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Think
  • Child

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Does
  • Arithmetic

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Me
  • Human
  • Passions

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Product
  • Extraordinary

• My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Talent
  • Big
  • Lips

• I always wanted to be a mom.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Wanted

• Books are humanity in print.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Humanity
  • Books
  • Print

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Best

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Without

• I believe that in order for me to consider myself one of the top ranked lightweights in the world, I have to go out and dominate the fight.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • World
  • Believe

• My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Control

• We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Eyes
  • Model
  • Ceiling

• My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Shadow

• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Children
  • Real
  • Brain

• Human and societal security should be seen as complementary to state security, and security must be thought of in multi-sum and multi-dimensional terms (human, national, transnational, environmental and transcivilisational).

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan