Nursultan Nazarbayev Quotes

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • College
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
  • Found

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Desire
  • Fire

• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • May
  • High
  • Beautiful

• Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Progress

• I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Deep
  • Dancing
  • Talents

• The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Real

• He brings so much. He has that experience of winning and that will rub off on a team that's not that far away.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Winning

• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Spiritual
  • Progress
  • Bases