Famous quotes containing the words transparency, human, rights and/or greece:
“End of tomorrow.
Dont try to start the car or look deeper
Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: luster
On luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layer
Until the whole thing overflows like a silver
Wedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Listen, if theres one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, its that I dont know anything about human nature.”
—Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)
“I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484424 B.C.)