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Martti Ahtisaari

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MARTTI AHTISAARI Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing the...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the...
MARTTI AHTISAARI I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean that in all d...
MARTTI AHTISAARI It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work.
MARTTI AHTISAARI We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,
MARTTI AHTISAARI It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but w...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The object of this first trip is to listen to the parties, collect impressions,
MARTTI AHTISAARI My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I owe i...
MARTTI AHTISAARI This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set ...
MARTTI AHTISAARI I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this deve...
MARTTI AHTISAARI Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power...
MARTTI AHTISAARI Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choos...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in t...
MARTTI AHTISAARI No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is...
MARTTI AHTISAARI very satisfied with the talks.
MARTTI AHTISAARI This is the beginning of a new era.
MARTTI AHTISAARI I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.
MARTTI AHTISAARI We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking s...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Ahtisaari ticks two of this year's most obvious boxes.
GERARD DAFFY Mr Ahtisaari has a very very difficult task. We foreign ministers have to have our vision, but we sh...
JEAN ASSELBORN We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibili...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be ...
BRUCE STERLING The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power.
AMERICAN LIBRARY Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable ...
TANA FRENCH In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, o...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
MILAN KUNDERA Pain was unimportant. Failure was unthinkable.
RICK RIORDAN Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
HOWARD DEAN It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN a number unthinkable even two years ago.
SILVAN SHALOM a number unthinkable, even two years ago.
SILVAN SHALOM We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've l...
LEWIS B. HERSHEY The unthinkable happened and nothing can undo it.
MARTIN JAMTLID Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK It's about Billy Bishop's time in the First World War when he becomes a man and a fighter pilot.
JAMES BARRETT You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON [HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Standing outside the home where his wife drowned their five children one ye...
ANDREA YATES We want to turn around Pontiac. As for Buick, it is unthinkable we would do anything there, given it...
BOB LUTZ I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagi...
V.T. DAVY Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
GARY ACKERMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under t...
HOWARD THURMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under ...
HOWARD THURMAN Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Som...
ANNE MICHAELS A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.
ASHTAVAKRA GITA A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it.
J.R. RIM The brain becomes a kind of sanctuary where the drugs can't follow,
M. THOMPSON When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we re...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN To kick us when we're down and destroy hope... is absolutely unthinkable,
KATHLEEN BLANCO Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally ...
EHUD BARAK The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Marriage is the only institution in life where the word familiarity becomes familiar.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in...
GERTRUDE STEIN Where he's building homes was right in a war zone.
DOUG SCHOEN Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too pr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
TOM ROBBINS Four things drive men to do the unthinkable: Hunger, Women, Money, and Power
SOTONYE ANGA To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
TOM ROBBINS We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. Whe...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. Whe...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The dec...
JAMES NESBITT I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is likely to be much deliberation over such a bid and it is almost unthinkable that the U.K. g...
KEITH BOWMAN It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
JACQUES AUDIARD The best part of the retreat is the program sessions where the retreat becomes personalized.
ADAM WISZOWATY A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
HENRY WALDORF FRANCIS A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
HENRY WALDORF FRANCIS I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
JOHN SHIRLEY The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.
PHYLLIS ROSE Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
C.S. LEWIS It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
ARUNDHATI ROY A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
NICK JOHNSON Life's irony; Where ever there is poverty,crises & sicknesses in life,religion becomes the major ben...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the c...
NICK HANAUER that the weapons and explosives are safely and adequately stored and cannot be used without the know...
BERTIE AHERN If you see where this team started in August with qualifying for the Champions League as the main ta...
GUUS HIDDINK If you see where this team started in August with qualifying for the Champions League as the main ta...
GUUS HIDDINK I hope we've progressed to a place where it isn't like Barbara Walters, where she is making a lot of...
CAROL WILLIAMS Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkab...
SOURCE UNKNOWN To go beyond that (two hours) is totally unthinkable, you will destroy the whole business day.
COLIN BOYES What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
JOHN ASHCROFT My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes in...
RICHARD POWERS Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
BEN MARCUS Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations domina...
RICHARD H. SHULTZ JR. I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all ...
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