Rakonczai Ervin Quotes & Sayings

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. — Carol Bellamy

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along. — Alain De Botton

Have you seen the sand-roses of the Sahara? Such is the violence of the Khamsin that it whips grains of sand together, presses them, finally builds them into great blocks, big enough and solid enough to be used for walls in the oasis. And beautiful! Whew! For all that, they are not real rocks. Leave hem in peace, with no possible interference - what happens? (I brought some home, and put them "in safety" as curiosities, and as useful psychometrical tests.) Alas! Time is enough. Go to the drawer which held them; nothing remains but little piles of dust. — Aleister Crowley

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims. — Jane Austen

Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. — Herman Melville

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it. — Sigourney Weaver

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. — Zygmunt Bauman

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it. — Michael N. Castle

I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most. — Beck

Their friendship had made them so thankful for all they still had that they couldn't be sad for what they had lost. — Jeremy D. Shapiro

There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel. — Christine Gregoire

Your team may be called "quality assurance." Don't let that go to your head. Your test results and bug reports provide information that facilitates the assurance of quality on the project, but that assurance results from the effort of the entire team. — Cem Kaner

I write best when "I" am not writing. — Girish Kohli