Placate Quotes

#1. But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

#3. That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Bruce Hornsby

#4. If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

Ingrid Newkirk

#6. Only ailments didn't work that way, did they? You couldn't placate them with sacrifices.

Stephen King

#7. The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.

Learned Hand

#8. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.

Ian McEwan

#9. Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

David Byrne

#11. A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#12. There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.

Anthony Eden

#13. Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

Jim Crace

#14. This argument didn't seem to placate the critics, so the AAFP executive

Michael Greger

#15. Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate.

Anais Nin

#16. It wasn't hard to take a liberal stand on race so long as it was seen as a Southern problem, and the Republicans didn't have any white Southerners to placate.

Rick Perlstein

#17. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of

Sherry Turkle

#18. Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#20. If you are a writer
May words twirl around your place
If you are a dreamer,
May visions placate your days with solace
If you are a lover
May fragrant freedom grace your days
If you are a visionary
May the hues of rainbow seep into your ways

Balroop Singh

#21. If Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot placate ISIS, how are we ever gonna be able to? And placate is clearly what John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, and Barack Hussein O and Hillary Clinton think is the only thing we have to do is placate them. Because we're at fault, see.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

Joanne Harris

#23. Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront ... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary

Jessica Fellowes

#24. I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

Donald Pleasence

#25. I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

John Entwistle

#26. I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic.

Nicola Sturgeon

#27. What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure how well well we taught what isn't worth learning." Dosta and Bena Kallick, Habits of Mind

Angela Provitera-McGlynn

#28. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#29. Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

Patricia Briggs

#30. I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

Antonio Davis