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

• 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
  • Experiment
  • Dare

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

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

  

  John Niven
  • Time
  • School
  • Book

• The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Never
  • Trouble

• Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Family

• I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • She
  • Friends
  • Control

• 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