"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Enough Quotes #Members Quotes #Aggressive Quotes

“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
“When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers . If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Source : Political Register, August 14, 1819.
“Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Donâ€™t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

Source : "Obama To Young Scientists: ‘Keep Asking Why’" by Sara Bondioli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.
“Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt....It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.”
“Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.”
“This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.”
“The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.”

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