Samantha Power Quotes

Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 21, 1970

Topics

ChangeGoodFutureCommunityTurn

I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.

Robert Mugabe

AloneWhiteGoSayRingLand

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

Steven Levy

CarGreatRobotGreaterSuckWould

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

Rupert Sanders

AmericaIdeaWantedSpecificVery

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

Ross MacDonald

MeSocietyProblemsWriteNeedRope

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

Lizzy Caplan

AmazingNeverAweUpSuccessful

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

Joseph Parker

GentlemanGameThinkBoxingI Think

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Delta Burke

BackNewLivingNew OrleansYears

I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.

Chris Lilley

CharacterPeopleRandomThinkYou

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

Cheryl Hines

FunnyGoodFriendCharacterWoman

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Christian Dior

ArchitectureDressBodyEphemeral

I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.

Clayton M. Christensen

LifeLoveMorningGodMyselfDay

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Augustus Y. Napier

ChangeManParentWantKindWay

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