Anne O'hare Mccormick Quotes

#1. The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#2. When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

David Einhorn

#3. Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they're waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world

Kavita Ramdya

#4. [During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#5. The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#6. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.

Adrienne Rich

#7. Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

Tad Williams

#8. The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#9. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Odell Shepard

#10. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#11. The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#12. Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

Jim Leyland

#13. Shine bright like a diamond.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

E. M. Forster

#15. You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

Jon Gordon

#16. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Moliere

#17. There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Nelson Mandela