Kofi Annan Quotes

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Kofi Annan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: ghanaian
  • Birth: April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018

Topics

RespectMistakeLawDoingSecurity

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

Jimmie Johnson

TwoDirtUpWheelsGrew

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as tough as it is, I get so much more out of it. It's like climbing Mt. Everest.

Anders Holm

I AmWritingToughWeirdActingWay

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

LifeLearningMistakesIdentityYou

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Robert Fisk

LifeGreatLonelinessDepressionTea

I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped on stage before.

Rory O'Malley

WoodsLovedFriendsNeverStage

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

HistoryNew YorkWallNewStreet

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Russell Crowe

CourageGriefPatriotismWarPeople

I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.

Dennis Quaid

LoveMeThinkFeelActingWhy

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

Chris Gabrieli

ChangeChange The WorldWorldBelieve

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

LifePeopleGrowing UpThinkBack

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

Bryan Fuller

MeStoryStrongLanguageNeverTell

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Brigitte Bardot

MarriageI AmSocietyAgainstGive

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