"The main thing that endears the United Nations……" — Conor Cruise O'Brien
"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."
More Capacity Quotes
- I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
- Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
- We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
- Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
- I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
- I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
- Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner