I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.
More Quotes from Jan Eliasson:
The General Assembly, by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting, could suspend the rights of membership of a council member who commits gross and systematic violations of human rights.Jan Eliasson
The realities of the world are a constant reminder that global action and collective efforts are now needed more than ever,
Jan Eliasson
I have seen the women in Somalia receive those water bottles where the alternative for them is to walk for two miles to get polluted water and even run the risk of being raped. These are the realities that we have to bring into the halls of the United Nations. So we may ask for a higher degree of ambition in the document. The realities are there, and I think we will have to deal with those realities.
Jan Eliasson
Who is right The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.
Jan Eliasson
not only to recall the grievous crimes committed in human history but also to reaffirm our unfaltering resolve to prevent the recurrence of such crimes.
Jan Eliasson
The best birthday gift to our Organization is for all of us, the members of the global community, to translate our leaders' commitments at the 2005 World Summit into concrete action to the benefit of the peoples of the world,
Jan Eliasson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: masochisticPeople who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Bill Laswell
And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.
Trofim Lysenko
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl