Nongovernmental Quotes

#1. Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.

Andrew Young

#2. The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

Elliott Abrams

#3. You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

Dick Couch

#4. The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

Paul Watson

#5. The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

Rene Cassin

#6. It actually does matter what people think about you.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#7. I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student.

Morgan Fairchild

#8. You are what you are, and I'd rather be myself than try and be what I'm not.

Georgia Groome

#9. My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.

Louie Anderson

#10. It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.

Joe Madureira

#12. Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.

Aphra Behn

#13. My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.

Branch Warren