U Thant Quotes

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
  • Home
  • Pretty

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sacrifice

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Good
  • Love
  • Feeling

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Power
  • Words

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

  

  Ann Aguirre

• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Good
  • Great
  • Jesus

• As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Effort

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor