Quotes About Detente

#1. No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. In the years just before ... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#3. Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#5. I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

#6. Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

Ronald Reagan

#7. Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

Gaston Bachelard

#8. I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Robert Dallek

#9. With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

Alfred Gough

#10. Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Leonid Brezhnev

#11. I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#12. The most important aspect of detente today is that there is no ideological detente.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

Misha Collins

#14. You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of the West was like granite and the West did not yield. Today, this nuclear threat still hangs on both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#15. I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Jack Kerouac

#16. We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

#17. Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Pink

#18. You are not alone ... please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of wings.

Tracy Shawn

#19. While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark.

Edmund Waller

#20. She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But,

Pauline Reage

#21. I'm going to be a fortune hunter!' - Lil
'I beg your pardon?' - Sophie

Katherine Woodfine

#22. The most important thing is to begin.

Jason Fried

#23. The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.

Max Von Stephanitz

#24. I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

Jason Reitman

#25. The day you start falling in love, with the wrecked homes and broken windows instead of running away from them. You will find a story that fills your soul, behind every burnt door.

Akshay Vasu

#26. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown