Jan Eliasson Quotes

#1. From the moment we'd met, he'd dragged me into the deep, swearing to me he was in there with me. It was a lie. He'd waded back out to the shallows and left me to drown.

Samantha Young

#2. I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when you engage in something you're passionate about, you're sort of out of your own head.

Marc Maron

#3. Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Jan Eliasson

#4. I don't have time. Come back after the election.

Jan Eliasson

#5. Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements.

Claude Monet

#6. I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

Sally Mann

#7. Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops - and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.

J.D. Robb

#8. Even when she was just a flutter inside me, I loved her. Because she is ours.

Kate Quinn

#9. Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Jan Eliasson

#10. I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor

#11. When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Wangari Maathai

#12. Let go right then. Do not rationalize, blame, or try to figure it out. Don't do anything. Just let go immediately, and allow the energy to go back to the highest center of consciousness it can achieve. If you feel shame, let it go.

Michael A. Singer

#13. In the blood of scales and days of kings,
Will come a boy to save us all.
Let us pray to the gods above, our voices large and small.
For all we fear in the shadows, will be destroyed with light.
Talonsphere will rise from the ground, and bring fire to the night.

Peter Koevari

#14. Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all

Jan Eliasson

#15. I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

Richelle Mead

#16. The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.

Lewis H. Lapham

#17. Disappointments are worse when they are caused by the people who should be your role models.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#18. Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

John C. Maxwell