Mahbub Ul Quotes

#1. I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Matthew Fox

#2. If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?

Jed S. Rakoff

#3. I felt my shoulders ease at her admission. She was going to do what she had to do, and I was going to do what I had to do. And Ivy? Ivy was going to go insane.

Kim Harrison

#4. Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Ernest L. Boyer

#5. People are the real wealth of a nation.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#6. Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

Jeremy Northam

#8. I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Aubrey O'Day

#9. We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

Mahmoud Darwish

#10. You're crazy, you know. That's what falling in love is all about - being vulnerable. Leaning on someone else. You don't lose yourself in the process - you grow.

Virna DePaul

#11. Just make sure you put the books back where you found them when you're done, or your fellow students will get testy.

Joelle Charbonneau

#12. In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#13. He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

Maurice Ashley

#14. The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

Paul Johnson

#15. A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Kenneth Tynan

#16. She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.

Louise Penny

#17. There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

Bill De Blasio

#18. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

Mahbub Ul Haq