Paul Nitze Quotes

#1. I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

Helmut Schmidt

#2. I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

Paul H. Nitze

#3. I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

Richard Elman

#4. We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Paul Nitze

#5. The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Harriet Martineau

#6. Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Paul Nitze

#7. I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval

William Brandt

#8. You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

C.S. Lewis

#9. The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#10. The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

Paul Nitze

#11. I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health ... it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

Audra McDonald

#12. In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

Heather Brooke

#13. One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Paul Nitze

#14. You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

D.A. Wallach

#15. I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

Verne Troyer

#16. With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an infrastructure of those who shared their point of view and were prepared to take over the countries.

Paul Nitze

#17. One surefire way of getting results the results we need and want is to start taking the advice we so readily give to others.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

Leonard Michaels

#19. Hey George, check this out.

Mira Grant

#20. We all have choices. It's whether or not we want to face the consequences of our choices.

Courtney Lane

#21. It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Florenz Ziegfeld