Nixonian Quotes

#1. Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

David Brooks

#2. There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

Nancy Gibbs

#3. The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.

Leon M. Lederman

#4. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Anne Rice

#5. Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. There is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.

Rolf Potts

#7. Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

Kevin Leveille

#8. Knock him on the head with the umbrella stand? Jab him with the paring knife? Scream. Die. Papa.

Anthony Doerr

#9. Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

Arthur Adamov

#10. The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away.

Paul Theroux

#11. After two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.

Amos Oz

#12. Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.

Nicholas Kristof

#13. It's so much easier to complain about something than celebrate it.

Megan Hilty

#14. Utopia is on the horizon," declares Eduardo Galeano. "When I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking." Judeo-Christian

Rebecca Solnit

#15. To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

Katharine Tynan