Peter Maurer Quotes

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

Peter Maurer

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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

Mallory Jansen
- Time
- Long
- Hair
Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

Hannah Ware
- Real
- Parents
- Perspective
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Long
- You
- Demon
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Samuel Gompers
- Long
- Achieve
- Determined
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

Otis Williams The Temptations
- Up
- Good
- Long
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Important
- Long
- Done