Antonio Guterres (António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres) Quotes
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Antonio Guterres
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
Nathan Wolfe
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
Samuel Beckett
Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
Vernon Howard
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.
M. C. Escher
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David Thoreau
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire
One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.
Emil Cioran
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
Paul Sparks
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Antonio Guterres
