Quotes
Authors
Gro Harlem Brundtland

"There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right."

Source : Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.”
“It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, youâ€™re lucky and you stick it out.”
“Drink up, boys, drink up and donâ€™t worry, if we finish this bottle weâ€™ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it wonâ€™t be the same as the one weâ€™ve got now, but itâ€™ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they donâ€™t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, donâ€™t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.”
“Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.”
“I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”
“An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.”
“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.”
“Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesnâ€™t bend in pain. â€œWhy should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.â€ Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.”

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