Peter Maurer Quotes

The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

  

  Patrick Gordon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Luxury

• We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Pretty
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English

• One time I tried to marry a chicken.

  

  Calum Hood 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Chickens

• I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Victory

• The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Humans

• The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Work
  • War