Perez De Cuellar Quotes & Sayings

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it. — Kathryn Kennish

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife. — Javier Perez De Cuellar

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see. — Scott Lynch

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them. — Richard Branson

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care. — Colleen Haskell

Then there was a new epidemic - of fear," said Dr. Sam Okware, Commissioner of Health Services, when I visited him in Kampala a month later. Among Dr. Okware's other duties, he served as chairman of the national Ebola virus task force. "That was the most difficult to contain," he said. "There was a new epidemic - of panic. — David Quammen

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power. — Silvio Berlusconi

Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters. — Robertson Davies

I knew by experience and by observing many of my friends the baneful, destructive effect which participation in a war has on almost every man.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf') — Gaito Gazdanov

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story. — Javier Perez De Cuellar

Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson. — Mary Higgins Clark

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image. — Gary Hume

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. — Kate Walsh

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool. — J Mascis

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. — Javier Perez De Cuellar

Don't hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone. — Joel Osteen

The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line ... — Javier Perez De Cuellar

The patient is in intensive care but still alive. — Javier Perez De Cuellar

I got religion in the third grade, and jeepers, did I need it. The devil was in me, and Hardy Biesterveld wasn't helping. — Michael Perry