Quotes About The Iran Hostage Crisis

#1. In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Chris Terrio

#2. Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

John Bartholomew Gough

#3. British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Simon Hoggart

#4. Age affects how people experience time.

Edward T. Hall

#5. Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. It was amazing and frightening what humans were capable of.

Lori Brighton

#7. We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard ... I believe it is work we are called to do

Gene Robinson

#8. All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Paul Gauguin

#9. I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom ... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

Paula Giddings