Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Quotes

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

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• Government
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• Crime
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• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Technology

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Food
  • Change
  • Older

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Know
  • Trust

• I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Always
  • See
  • Something

• My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Never

• The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Funny
  • Husband
  • Sad

• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Women
  • See
  • Curvy

• My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Alone
  • Feel

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• I feel beautiful in love. There is a lot of love for you in the beholder's eye. That makes you feel very happy.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Desert
  • Sunrise

• I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Work
  • Fear

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • More
  • Events

• The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

  

  Steven Levy
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Computer

• No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

  

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
  • Fear
  • Government
  • Force