Lester B. Pearson Quotes

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Lester B. Pearson

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
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• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Chanel

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Children
  • Help

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
  • Enjoy

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • House
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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

  

  Natalie Morales
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Europe

• A playmaker, he makes that play. . . . If you are (screwing around) on one play, that might have been your play to make.

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Play
  • Make
  • Playmaker

• There's no privacy for the violently dead.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • Death
  • Privacy

• Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Great
  • War
  • Night

• Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Society

• The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Today
  • Society