Eleanor Roosevelt United Nations Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper. — David Brenner

I suggest that all who listen to my voice would benefit by an examination of the lives of those we sustain as general officers of the Church. You will find some important examples among them and come to know those who have "a perfect heart." — Monte J. Brough

And my brain goes quiet and my heart is calm and my life is at a standstill, and the pendulum that I am, all the swinging to and fro, finally stops and I feel like I finally found my center. — Katy Evans

How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it? — Aung San Suu Kyi

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too. — Eleanor Roosevelt

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. — Studs Terkel

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. — James Sharp

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football. — Sepp Blatter

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no! — Robert Browning

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life. — Chip Ingram

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. — Richard Steele

I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion. — Kristina Schroder

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. — George Herbert