Jigme Wangchuck Quotes & Sayings

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards. — Mohamed ElBaradei

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players. — Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one. — Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Well this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup! — Russell Brand

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. — Augusto Roa Bastos

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader. — Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck — John Robbins

It doesn't matter when you get married as long as it is the right person. — Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

As if on a conveyer belt, there will be a never ending supply of idiots and jerks that come and go in your life. Whether you stop the belt to dance with any one of them is up to you. — Dan Pearce

Pro-choicers often say no one is "pro-abortion," but what is so virtuous about adding another child to the ones you're already overwhelmed by? Why do we make young women feel guilty for wanting to feel ready for motherhood before they have a baby? Isn't it a good thing that women think carefully about what it means to bring a child into this world - what, for example, it means to the children she already has? — Katha Pollitt

I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In — Claire Messud