Guterres Quotes

#1. When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

Thomas Jane

#2. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal

#3. I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

Diego Della Valle

#4. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Lewis

#5. You can't do in a race what you haven't prepared for.

Kara Goucher

#6. You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.

Bill Murray

#7. Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

Malorie Blackman

#8. Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves ... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Harold Bloom

#9. Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

Douglas Adams

#10. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

#11. Why us, goddammit? Why are you doing this stuff to us? You're going to kill us!"
"Why? Because I can.

Neil Gaiman

#12. It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

Ernest K. Gann

#13. Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#14. Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

Antonio Guterres

#15. While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

Antonio Guterres

#16. We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely

Antonio Guterres

#17. SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

Diana Wynne Jones

#18. I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn't play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

Adam Levine

#19. Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

Antonio Guterres

#20. And this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.

Helene Cixous