Peter Maurer Quotes

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

Peter Maurer

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GreatMoreNeedComplexHumanitarian

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Robert Rodriguez

TimeGrowWishBackFastGo

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

Matthew Desmond

LifeFunnySmartPeoplePotential

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Maude Adams

BestDaySucceedEnoughSometimes

I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.

Michael Bisping

WorkWorldChampionFirstAlways

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Mitch Hedberg

SmartPeopleMeBrainFreeName

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

Dax Shepard

BookLos AngelesAuditionsCommercial

You can never get two members of the family to agree on anything.

Claude Picasso

FamilyYouNeverTwoAnythingAgree

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

MotivationalSucceedImportantWill

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.

Tim O'Brien

WorkWarBookNameFeelMy Own

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Timothy Noah

EducationCommitmentWorldBetter

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Ryan Reynolds

PeopleMomentsHeroicToo

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

Richard Cordray

JobMeLawTakeGivenFaithfully

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