Quotes about un
united-nations
I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all. Mahathir Mohamad
unnecessary currency should
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
understanding opinion philosopher
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. Maimonides
unnecessary realms
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
understanding force used
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. Mahatma Gandhi
unity foundation untouchability
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
understanding world truth-is
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
unforgivable-sin remains capable
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. Gene Wolfe
unique adages uniqueness
It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique. Gavin Newsom
uncomfortable manage
Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint. Gail Carriger
unemployment balls paper
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
unions
I've never bashed a union in my life. Norman Tebbit
understanding intellectual culture
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye
united-states culture threat
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
unions armament soviet-union
Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments. Norman Mailer
unique film take-me
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. Norman McLaren
unstable source humans
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. Os Guinness
unhappiness protect
My unhappiness protects me from life. Orhan Pamuk
understanding furniture common
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. Olympia Brown
unseen doe servant
The best servant does his work unseen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
unique alzheimers tools
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. Oliver Sacks
unique will-to-survive miracle
The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.
unique narrative different
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.
understanding mind needs
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in.
unexpected existence unexpected-places
If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence. Octavia Spencer
unique world imagine
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen. Nostradamus
unhappiness endure
Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness Novala Takemoto
unique privilege chance
I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents. Novak Djokovic
understanding may overcoming
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale
unhappy determined capacity
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
unhappy
Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!
unique forever suffering
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. Emile M. Cioran
understanding weakness strive
We should strive to understand the weakness of others. Ellen G. White