Thomas Pickering Quotes

#1. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Thomas R. Pickering

#2. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

#3. I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Tallulah Bankhead

#4. I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

David Lange

#5. From Mrs. Bennett to Jane: I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!

Jane Austen

#6. I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.

Stieg Larsson

#7. I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Mark Pincus

#8. Many of the forests of the world are being mowed down ... But the rest of the world isn't going to say, "Okay, we'll save our forests, but you Americans can keep driving all your cars!" There has to be give and take.

Thomas R. Pickering

#9. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#10. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.

Steven Pressfield

#11. Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values, but making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

Thomas R. Pickering