Bernard Kouchner Quotes

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

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• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Star

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Space
  • Search
  • Advertising

• Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Like
  • Movement
  • Seeing

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Want
  • Play
  • Player

• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Same
  • Talent

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Differences
  • Celebrate

• Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Body
  • Torture

• I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• 'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • She
  • House

• You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Song
  • Knows
  • Records

• The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • Real
  • True
  • Communication

• Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Business
  • Law

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

  

  Edmundo Desnoes
  • Reality
  • Perfection
  • Composition

• We don't have to See eye to eye to Agree.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Eye
  • See
  • Agree

• I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

  

  Bernard Kouchner
  • Meeting
  • Composition
  • Council