Guehenno Jean Quotes & Sayings

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal. — Jane Austen

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward. — Ann Leckie

It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward. — Jean Guehenno

There is no better boost in the present than an invitation to the future. — Caroline Kepnes

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. — Penn Jillette

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character. — Mahatma Gandhi

The danger was within itself: it was the crisis of confidence it was going through, the fear of being itself. When you considered them individually, French boys were as active and intelligent as ever. But they lacked the sort of shared hope and dreams which are the sign of health in a people. The fact that the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Revolution were only funeral commemorations revealed that weakness, that lifelessness. It was so clear — Jean Guehenno

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. — Alonzo Church

Gaea?" Leo shook his head. "Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry."
"Leo, that's Snow White," Piper said. — Rick Riordan

The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries. — Ha-Joon Chang

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security. — Jean-Marie Guehenno

She's got zero interest in honest-to-goodness human-on-human action. No. It's magic farmyard creatures or nothing for her. — Charlie Brooker

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. — Ariel Pink

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character. — Jean Guehenno

When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix. — Jean-Marie Guehenno

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick. — Dave Pelzer