"We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Antonio Guterres

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.”
“I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.”

Source : "Gary Barlow: the sexy one". Interview With Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2011.
“In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”
“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”
“You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.”
“Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.”
“It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.204, Macmillan

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