Antonio Guterres (António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres) Quotes

We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

Antonio Guterres

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Night
  • Feeling

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Way
  • Right
  • Organized

• You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Be Yourself

• Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Taken
  • Police

• Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trust

• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

  Lorin Maazel

• The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

  

  Len Deighton
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• We should never have a doubt about Taiwan's independent status. Taiwan has been an independent and sovereign country since 23 March 1996, the day of its first direct presidential election.

  

  Annette Lu
  • Country
  • Doubt
  • Independent

• Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Energy

• It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Different

• Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Family

• Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Time
  • Book

• 'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.

  

  John Fusco
  • Horse

• I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  

  Meg Wheatley

• I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Good

• We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering