Widad Akrawi Quotes

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

Widad Akrawi

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • May
  • Man
  • Me

• This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Country
  • Punishment

• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Sun

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Success
  • Strong

• Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Child
  • WIld
  • Oh

• Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Universe

• I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer?

  

  Logic
  • Wonder

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • Pretty

• I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Life
  • Real
  • Family

• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Brain

• In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Energy

• Modesty is not one of my virtues.

  

  Alan King

• I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.

  

  Benny Blanco

• I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Difficult

• Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there.

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Son
  • Expect
  • Coach

• I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Democracy

• Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Democracy
  • Security
  • Environmental