Charles Albert Gobat Quotes

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Charles Albert Gobat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: May 21, 1843 - March 16, 1914

Topics

PassionPeaceWarStepDirection

It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time.

Joel Gretsch

TimeMeLongLong TimeAlwaysGuy

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

Maxine Peake

MeClassSeeCountBeingAgainst

I think we're living in a world where there are no boundaries anymore. There are no borders.

Robert Kraft

WorldThinkLivingBordersWhere

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

John Tavener

MusicBeautifulArtSimpleAmerican

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Stanley Crouch

EnemyLeapBigWhereOtherGetting

I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that.

Trombone Shorty

DayPeopleThinkGuitarTryingFind

When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.

Rithy Panh

MeStoryStrongGoKnowWant

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Mason Cooley

FearCrueltyPity

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Martin Winterkorn

AmbitionFaceProblemEntrepreneur

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Aretha Franklin

MusicMyselfWordsMindWriting

I'm an unbelievable designer.

Serena Williams

DesignerUnbelievable

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

Mark Rylance

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