Martti Ahtisaari Quotes

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

Martti Ahtisaari

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ResponsibilityPeacePeopleConflict

I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.

Jenny Han

LifeLoveTeenThinkRememberYou

Nobody gets a free pass in life, and that's awesomely true for a drag queen or anyone else in the LGBT community. But I like to say, 'Don't be bitter, get better.'

Alyssa Edwards

LifeCommunityQueenFreeBetter

The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Stephen Rodrick

HomeBridgesBigCourseBase

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

Toni Braxton

Black And WhiteMeBlackWhiteGo

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Tom Stoppard

JourneyUpSomethingBeenSenses

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

Mike Gordon

EnoughSaySystemOnlyAbleSongs

My favourite season is autumn, and I love walking through woods.

Lucy Davis

LoveWoodsWalkingThroughAutumn

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Christian Louboutin

CookingGardeningTalkingCountry

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Claire Tomalin

MorningMemoriesFootballMenBaby

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

Allison Scagliotti

GreatSchoolMeDramaBoredSystem

As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.

Alistair Brownlee

FamilyWalkingRidingActiveAlways

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Thomas Sowell

KnowledgeMoneySocietyInformation

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