William Pfaff Quotes

#1. Since I've known you, you've been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I'm in love with.

Megan McCafferty

#2. It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

William Pfaff

#3. The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

William Pfaff

#4. The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

William Pfaff

#5. Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

David Beckham

#6. Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

Johann Peter Eckermann

#7. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

#8. Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

William Pfaff

#9. The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

William Pfaff

#10. Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

William Pfaff

#11. For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

William Pfaff

#12. So I was a punk out of frustration. But I became a Tory out of hope.

Niall Ferguson

#13. I've been embracing gray hair since ... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

Taylor Hicks

#14. When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.

Michael Chabon

#15. We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

William Pfaff

#16. America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

William Pfaff

#17. The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

William Pfaff

#18. The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

William Pfaff

#19. The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

William Pfaff

#20. The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

Hal Duncan

#21. You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less."
p. 501 Bee to Fitz

Robin Hobb

#22. Now don't you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise)
No, Mom. I'm sitting. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Frederick William Robertson

#24. Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

William Pfaff

#25. But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

William Pfaff

#26. Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

Isaac McLellan

#27. Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

Lionel Shriver

#28. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

Peter Hain