#aid

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#appraisal #decision-making #effectively #essential #interests

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#dumb #dumb enough #enough #i #i always

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ↗

— Brian Sibley

#chronic #deal #die #great #great deal

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#closer #depends #down #easy #i

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#dead #enslaved #exhausted #her #here

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#even #funny #harsh #i #i think

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#afraid #censure #death #dread #fame

The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#could #dark #hard #i #like

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. ↗

— Red Skelton

#been #brings #chance #chuckle #clown