Alain Gerbault Quotes

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

Alain Gerbault

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• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Trying
  • War
  • Together

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Team
  • Positive

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Girl

• Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.

  

  Britney Spears

• The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis

• I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

  

  Bob Crosby
  • Responsibility
  • Brother

• I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  

  David Wenham
  • People
  • Work

• The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • May
  • Reality
  • Supernatural

• The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Charkha

• Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

  

  Abby Sunderland
  • World
  • Sea
  • High-Definition

• I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

  

  Alain Gerbault
  • Freedom
  • Sea
  • Adventure