Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize Quotes

#1. We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering....

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986

Edward Iwata

#2. Don't listen to what people tell you because they'll try to bring you down. And don't listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.

Chris Colfer

#3. I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

A.R. Rahman

#4. I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.

Romesh Gunesekera

#5. When speaking of disabilities, the blind and their needs are most often used as an example. It is deceivingly simplistic since accessibility is something most of the population can benefit from.

Marcus Osterberg

#6. I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

Graham Shiels

#7. I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

Kevin McCloud

#8. If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

#9. Well, sir. I look at facts. And the fact is that our world is dying and if we don't all do our best to save it, we aren't going to last much longer.

A.J. Lauer

#10. You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

Andy Samberg

#11. These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.

William Shakespeare

#12. 1.A green-glass beanstalk
2.An abstract represenation of a tree
3.A greener, glassier, uglier Washingtong Movement
4. The Jolly Green Giant's gigantic jolly green phallus.

John Green

#13. It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Robert Taft

#14. We all know more than we give ourselves credit for. The problem is, there's too much surface shit that gets in the way, too many clouds obscuring our thoughts, filling us with worry and doubt and fear. It stops us from tapping deeper within ourselves.

J.R. Rain

#15. Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Julie Mehretu

#16. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Dean Kamen