Thoraya Obaid famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world. ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.
-- Thoraya Obaid

#Sea #Space #World
We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.
-- Thoraya Obaid

#Country #People #Design
The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.
-- Thoraya Obaid

#Country #Determination #Unique
We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?
-- Thoraya Obaid

#People #Community #Culture
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health
-- Thoraya Obaid

#Issues #Challenges #Environmental
If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?
-- Thoraya Obaid

#Thinking #Goal #Leader

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

Thoraya Obaid famous quotes

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