Quotes About Ngo

#1. Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Charles Polanyi

#2. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#3. Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

Anthony Marra

#4. Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy.

Jim Bishop

#5. We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.

Pope Francis

#6. 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

#7. It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not

Jinggoy Estrada

#8. In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

Lisa Kristine

#9. I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Maurice Strong

#10. The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Arundhati Roy

#11. Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

Esther Duflo

#12. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

Aung San Suu Kyi

#13. When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

Kevin Ngo

#14. Until you run out of pages, there's still room to write an epic ending.

Kevin Ngo

#15. You know," he says, peeking inside the bag. "It's okay. Because ham and cheese is my absolute favorite ... and an apple? It's like, the lunch of champions."
I stifle another yawn. "It doesn't get much better than that, right?"
"Only if you were eating with me," he says.

Katie Klein

#16. In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.

Brian Andreas

#17. If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

Kevin Ngo

#18. KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please."
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.

James Dashner

#19. Save the World-ers

Kajsa Li Paludan

#20. I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain ...

Rutger Hauer

#21. A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

Frank Rich

#23. The foremost of his therapeutic principles is that conscious realization is an important agent for transforming the personality. The

C. G. Jung

#24. In other words, he stands for both a phenotypical and a multivalent cultural admixture.

Fiona I.B. Ngo

#25. I could be wrong, but she seemed to be one of those anti-gluten, pro-yoga, organic wine bar, Generation-Y echo boomers. A Gwyneth Paltrow type who would name her first daughter Persimmon or whatever.

Paul Levine

#26. It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

Kevin Ngo

#27. I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

Larry Merchant

#28. Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

Anthony Daniels

#29. Be kind as if you are born to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#30. After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".

John Wood

#32. I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'

Melissa McCarthy