U Thant Quotes
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.U Thant
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina -
This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
Bassem Youssef -
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart -
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
Lady Gaga
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
Cara Delevingne -
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe -
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner -
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
C. L. R. James -
One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
Larry Williams -
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx -
There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
Ioan Gruffudd -
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland -
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
Karen Robards -
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Umberto Eco -
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
Muhammad Ali -
You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
U Thant