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SUSANE COLASANTI This shows the attitude of Turkey and its political culture, which reaffirms how wise we were to rej...
GEORGE LILLIKAS Russia believes one cannot talk about failed diplomatic efforts or reach a verdict before Kofi Annan...
YEVGENY PRIMAKOV I am hopeful, confident and optimistic that with goodwill on all sides we will be able to implement ...
JAYANTHA DHANAPALA Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibili...
ROMEO DALLAIRE [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Northern Alliance] to respect their obligations und...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce...
MAURICE STRONG In the past five years, Kofi Annan focused on Africa because the Africans had the impression the Uni...
ABDALLAH BAALI No matter how many defeat or setback you have suffered, keep hope alive, hope for a better life
SOTONYE ANGA We are receptive to the idea but the recommendation of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is that Presi...
LAURO BAJA Keep The Good Hope Alive! And You'll Always See Yourself Alive In The Hope!:)
JEKIN VORA That is what they want us to do. I'm not happy, but we need to keep Spa alive don't we?
BERNIE ECCLESTONE Keep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSON Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD We can't strive and better the community if the city doesn't keep its commitment.
GEORGE BURROWS They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.
LAUREN DESTEFANO I need to keep Willie alive.
EMMETT KELLY We hope to keep playing with consistency. We played great (Tuesday) and we need to keep it up.
JENNIFER GRUBB We desperately need to let the world know we're alive and that we're open for business. We hope peop...
ARTHUR HARDY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN The United Nations also took action to reform and improve its peacekeeping capabilities. Secretary G...
JANET BEIK "The best competition we can be in is with ourselves, we should strive each day to do better and be ...
DENNIS BARTON In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
AVIJEET DAS The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
JOE BATTEN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exerci...
JACK LALANNE When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we...
PAULO COELHO How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
NICHOLAS SPARKS Develop the habit of assessing yourself, it will keep you from being a mediocre and challenge you to...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Keep running; keep dreaming, keep alive the flame of hope; defeat and despair will not catch up with...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are close to promotion and intend to keep chasing Gretna. We need to keep getting results in the ...
IAIN STEWART The youth have hope because it's their future they're hopeful about and if they're depressed about t...
JOHN LENNON You're alive! So strive to thrive, not just survive.
MATT DEMPSEY Never cease to strive as long as you’re alive.
SCOTTIE SOMERS We decided to do something in her name just to keep her memory alive.
TERRIE ARCHER Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
NED VIZZINI The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS When despair loom over, keep expectation alive, expectation rediscovers hope.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON It's a building block we can learn from and then move on. We need to keep trying to get better and k...
EARL CALLOWAY To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
CHEN SHUI-BIAN Strive to do something everyday, that will inch closer to a better tomorrow.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is nothing I ever need to have. There is nothing I ever need to do. I say NO to the demands of...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL IN EVERY SITUATION IN LIFE, WE MUST NOT ONLY BE HOPEFUL BUT AS WELL KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the Uni...
BONO When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
PAULO COELHO This is another meet that provides a big crowd and a good chance to do well. We need to focus on wha...
BRAD CATTERMOLE There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through l...
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JEFF ZIMMERMAN What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posses...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We want to keep their names and memories alive.
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KOFI ANNAN The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the...
KOFI ANNAN We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments te...
KOFI ANNAN National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But...
KOFI ANNAN If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
KOFI ANNAN If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
KOFI ANNAN If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first dec...
KOFI ANNAN More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
KOFI ANNAN The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
KOFI ANNAN We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their childr...
KOFI ANNAN We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will...
KOFI ANNAN We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflec...
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KOFI ANNAN In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
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KOFI ANNAN The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people ach...
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KOFI ANNAN Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they proba...
KOFI ANNAN There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers ...
KOFI ANNAN The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
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KOFI ANNAN On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a proble...
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KOFI ANNAN If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch ...
KOFI ANNAN Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...
KOFI ANNAN When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the ...
KOFI ANNAN The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political sys...
KOFI ANNAN I have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime...
KOFI ANNAN extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation.
KOFI ANNAN They often lack simple and fundamental information that is crucial to their safety. As we know, in t...
KOFI ANNAN This is inexcusable. Weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger to us all, particularly in a wo...
KOFI ANNAN It is vital that we turn this situation around and ensure that developing countries receive the fina...
KOFI ANNAN We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that departm...
KOFI ANNAN to see if broader investigations can take place.
KOFI ANNAN There are now 11 women heads of state or government, in countries on every continent. And three coun...
KOFI ANNAN The balance must be redressed.
KOFI ANNAN We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and ...
KOFI ANNAN We can wait until everything is perfect but how much time will that take? One year, two years, three...
KOFI ANNAN I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that...
KOFI ANNAN The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happen...
KOFI ANNAN The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice...
KOFI ANNAN Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new mille...
KOFI ANNAN Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were...
KOFI ANNAN Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out...
KOFI ANNAN Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or m...
KOFI ANNAN If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
KOFI ANNAN I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to le...
KOFI ANNAN I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begi...
KOFI ANNAN We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ...
KOFI ANNAN a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.
KOFI ANNAN creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.
KOFI ANNAN Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basical...
KOFI ANNAN given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
KOFI ANNAN This initiative, which must lead to a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end of occupation in Gaza...
KOFI ANNAN It was normal for us to lend our support to candidates from (African) countries with links to France...
KOFI ANNAN We not only have no convincing evidence of these allegations; we have no evidence of any kind. We ha...
KOFI ANNAN There seem to be efforts coming from Lebanese territory to deliberately create instability along the...
KOFI ANNAN a serious lack of cohesion within the mission as well as a number of other shortcomings.
KOFI ANNAN There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humanki...
KOFI ANNAN Once human-to-human transmission has been established, we would have only a matter of weeks to lock ...
KOFI ANNAN I am in touch with several heads of state, ... We need money, police and troops. I hope not only Fra...
KOFI ANNAN I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance th...
KOFI ANNAN The states are too high to continue down a dangerous path of diplomatic brinkmanship,
KOFI ANNAN this last chance, and continues its defiance, the council will have to make another grim choice, bas...
KOFI ANNAN They either consider the flood gates are open and they can come with their own amendments or they sh...
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KOFI ANNAN Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing th...
KOFI ANNAN and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bul...
KOFI ANNAN Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
KOFI ANNAN It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.
KOFI ANNAN exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building.
KOFI ANNAN I had hoped that some of those with the capacity would go to the assistance of those who are in ther...
KOFI ANNAN I am braced and we are all ready.
KOFI ANNAN unhappily, both were found and have been documented in great detail.
KOFI ANNAN What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the intern...
KOFI ANNAN The electoral process has not countered the sense of disadvantage felt by opposition political parti...
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KOFI ANNAN So far, donors have made firm commitments for only 12 percent, 37 million dollars, of the UN require...
KOFI ANNAN Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size...
KOFI ANNAN This summit must be a summit of solutions,
KOFI ANNAN so that we can get away from the idea that some, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, ...
KOFI ANNAN If they are not compensated, they are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick, ... If oth...
KOFI ANNAN well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council.
KOFI ANNAN The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera...
KOFI ANNAN guilty of no wrongdoing.
KOFI ANNAN In terms of logistics, the difficult terrain makes this one of most challenging relief operations ev...
KOFI ANNAN to ensure an end to impunity.
KOFI ANNAN New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered ever...
KOFI ANNAN You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are p...
KOFI ANNAN No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that contin...
KOFI ANNAN The negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in light of the date of the summit, which...
KOFI ANNAN [French President Jacques Chirac said the bombings left him] stunned and saddened, ... perpetrators ...
KOFI ANNAN I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and lead...
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KOFI ANNAN We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to o...
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
KOFI ANNAN I am very grateful that the prime minister and the Cabinet decided not to stick to the deadline,
KOFI ANNAN I think we can rein in the situation,
KOFI ANNAN shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.
KOFI ANNAN There's been quite a lot of debate about the application of the Geneva Convention. ... Whether they ...
KOFI ANNAN There must be no more sticking heads in the sand. No more embarrassment and no more hiding behind a ...
KOFI ANNAN when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.
KOFI ANNAN No cause can justify such acts of terror,
KOFI ANNAN I don't think any institution can go through the scrutiny, the scrubbing we've gone through and come...
KOFI ANNAN I came to listen and explore ways and means of intensifying the diplomatic efforts and try to achiev...
KOFI ANNAN The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
KOFI ANNAN If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades...
KOFI ANNAN I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.
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KOFI BUSIA What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world ...
KOJO ANNAN I admire my father greatly.
KOJO ANNAN I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
KOJO ANNAN I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political a...
KOJO ANNAN My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many...
KOJO ANNAN I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I ca...
KOJO ANNAN At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the...
KOJO ANNAN I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
KOJO ANNAN In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.
KOJO ANNAN neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that ha...
KOJO ANNAN No purist talk here of letting the flavors speak for themselves, the English let them sing in concer...
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