Quotes by Norwegian/Norway authors (page 5)

"I want my music to have a positive impact on people's lives, and I hope that it can help them overcome their challenges and feel better about themselves"

Alan Walker, Musician

"When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others"

Alan Walker, Musician

"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Health is the core of human development"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The burden of disease falls on the poor"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content"

Knut Hamsun, Author

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Quotes by Norwegian authors