Council Quotes
345 quotes by 279 authors
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold…
— Anna Lindh
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We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility…
— Anna Lindh
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Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to…
— Norman Foster
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Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their…
— William Henry Ashley
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Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution…
— Godfried Danneels
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
— Dora Russell
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led…
— John Ruskin
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a…
— John Aylmer
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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation…
— Susan Brigden
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The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of…
— J. N. Andrews
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There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in…
— John F. Street
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The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part…
— Dan Smoot
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Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the…
— Charles Sheffield
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith
— Orson Pratt
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Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue…
— Max McKeown
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President Obama is coming under criticism now for not meeting with his jobs council. He hasn't met with his jobs council in over six months.…
— Jay Leno
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On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it…
— Allyson Schwartz
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