Melanne Verveer Quotes

#1. When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

Ayn Rand

#2. Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Melanne Verveer

#3. Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Melanne Verveer

#4. I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not like comedy. When I do a podcast or write an episode of TV, I have no feedback for that. That's the only way you know what you're doing is good or bad.

Harris Wittels

#5. As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance ... The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.

Alys Arden

#6. We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.

Melanne Verveer

#7. All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

#8. My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men.

Melanne Verveer

#9. I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.

Melanne Verveer

#10. The legs feed the wolf

Herb Brooks

#11. No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind

Melanne Verveer

#12. The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

Melanne Verveer

#13. One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.

Melanne Verveer

#14. It was at that moment that I knew, regardless of whether we were here or in the world outside of these walls, I couldn't live without him.

Terry Towers

#15. There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.

Melanne Verveer

#16. Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

Melanne Verveer

#17. The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

Melanne Verveer

#18. You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

Gary Zukav

#19. We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Melanne Verveer

#20. A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

Melanne Verveer

#21. I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Paul Farmer

#22. Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

Melanne Verveer

#23. The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

Gautama Buddha

#24. Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

Melanne Verveer

#25. My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Charles Dickens

#26. My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

Melanne Verveer

#27. In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

Taylor Swift

#28. For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Melanne Verveer

#29. Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#30. Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.

Melanne Verveer

#31. I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

Melanne Verveer

#32. In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

Melanne Verveer

#33. People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Mike White