Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

Topics

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I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Mel Gibson

WorkMyselfNeverAlwaysFarMuch

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Matthew Perry

FunGameThinkBadDamnWhy

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Amber Tamblyn

LifeGodAngryPeopleRealOut

What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

Amitava Kumar

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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Sophocles

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Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

Michael Madigan

LifeWorldBossesEverywhere

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Dixie Lee Ray

Just BecauseAcceptThingsJustSays

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Arthur Phillips

LifeGreatArtMeThinkingBetter

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

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I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Thomas Kinkade

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