Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 1, 1934

Topics

GoodHelpYouBadCountryWant

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.

Jeff Goodell

StupidWorldJust BecauseAustralia

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

John Woolman

WorkLoveGodAgeExperienceYear

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

Steven Hill

ChangePeopleHelpUncomfortableOwn

The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.

Robert F. Engle

WorkEconomicsColleaguesFinancial

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Djuna Barnes

MindGalaxyMisinformationPriceless

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

Douglas Alexander

PoliticiansThemselvesDiminish

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer

EndYouLawsWouldOurLaid

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

Peter Hargreaves

PeopleBelieveNameEndYouRun

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

Richard M. DeVos

WorkHard WorkResponsibilityMe

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Nita Ambani

GrandfatherNeverHimProfessorMet

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Richard Flanagan

WorldEndIslandGrandparentsMining

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Rene Magritte

WantHiddenAlwaysEverythingSee

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