Smallpox Eradication Quotes

#1. If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort

Laurie Garrett

#2. There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#3. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

Olga Korbut

#4. You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

Tarsem Singh

#5. No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

Michael Caine

#6. I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Aharon Appelfeld

#8. The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

Jimmy Carter

#9. Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

Brandon Thomas

#10. If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

Lewis Black

#11. Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. When you undress a woman you enter her subconscious kingdom, her scents, her secrets and her fantasy.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

George Herbert

#13. Dreamers push boundaries, they invent and they keep awake at all times.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

Anne-Marie Duff