Samantha Power Quotes

Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WarOrganizationWorldEasyDNAOut

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Jimmy Carr

MarriageChristianSexWantBefore

In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

Megan Fox

LifeTruthMyselfPastPeopleMedia

Life loves the liver of it.

Maya Angelou

LifeLiverLoves

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Robert Sheckley

DoingLookBackWrongNowIdea

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Tom Stoppard

LifeMeStrikeBeingEventState

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

PositivePeopleSocietyBetterBack

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

Mike James

YouThreeMatterLastMinutes

I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.

Lukas Forchhammer

FriendFatherBestLosingMeCool

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

David Steinberg

FatherCanadaLittleLeftRabbiHad

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

Claire Denis

LifeGoodSometimesAlwaysNecessary

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.

Antonio Ermirio de Moraes

WorkRichResultYouDoneBecome

I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.

Ansel Elgort

TimeBrotherMeSisterLikeMillion

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