Bernard Kouchner Quotes

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Bernard Kouchner

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • May
  • Door

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Best
  • Most

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Identity
  • See

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • Poetry

• Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Country
  • Band
  • Lawyer

• With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Tennis

• There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Time
  • Family
  • Elephant

• I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Smile

• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Family

• I've just gotten better at partying. I haven't stopped or slowed down by any means. If anything, it's increased. But if anything, it's just more fun now.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Fun

• I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Science
  • Practice

• There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Exciting

• That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Day

• [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • True
  • Faces
  • Terrorism

• When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: 'Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone'.

  

  Plutarch
  • Great
  • Children

• Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

  

  Bernard Kouchner
  • War
  • Prepare