Miroslav Lajcak Quotes

The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

Miroslav Lajcak

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• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Done
  • Environment
  • Most

• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Me

• Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Search
  • Wait
  • December

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Things
  • Favorite
  • Wheel

• I'm always late.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Always
  • Late

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Relationship
  • Humanity

• I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Interesting

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

  

  Peter Carey
  • School
  • Experience
  • Age

• It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Reality
  • Change
  • Epiphany

• The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Education
  • Change
  • Climate