Intergovernmental Organizations Quotes & Sayings

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels. — Terry Pratchett

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with. — Amitai Etzioni

Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event. — Bryant McGill

NASCAR logic isn't always logical. — Darrell Waltrip

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe. — Barack Obama

What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility. — Felix Frankfurter

I've killed enough of the world's trees. — Stephen King

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. — Lauren Myracle

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. — Russell Baker

I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away. — Karen Marie Moning

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own. — Jose Rizal

I want to be great, something special. — Sugar Ray Leonard