Noeleen Quotes & Sayings

I've watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life. — Geraldine Brooks

No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling. — Pat Cunningham Devoto

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry. — Edward Hallett Carr

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course. — Adam Haslett

If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you. — Hugh Jackman

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It". — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else. — Lindsey Graham

Corruption in any institution can only take hold, if organised elements within it act on delusional beliefs that do not benefit the whole. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When a student "studied" did he do anything more than read and think
or was there something special which no one in Walden Two would know about? Why did the professors lecture to the students? Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions? Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in? — B.F. Skinner

I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online. — Gerry Harvey

Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go. — Noeleen Heyzer

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. — Penelope Fitzgerald