Quotes by Swedish/Sweden authors (page 4)

"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I dream, therefore I exist"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly"

Stellan Skarsgard, Actor

"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"We need new partnerships for peace and security"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security"

Anna Lindh, Politician

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