Quotes by Norwegian authors

"If you all ways work hard, you will get in return for it some day"

"Payback before heaven"

"Do what you do best, and you will succeed"

"The system cannot always adapt to the user, the user also has to renew himself"

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

"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South"

"Listen to your users and the application will succeed"

"Life does not consist of words. Life is reality"

"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone"

"Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology"

"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development"

"Cancers of all types among women are increasing"

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

"That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development"

"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"

"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits"

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits"

"Health is the core of human development"