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Letter "P" » Peggy Noonan Quotes
«Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
combination, competence, sincerity
«I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Gifts,
Miracles
| Keywords:
clues, clue in, flat, flats, gifts, Miracles
«Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
appreciated, bravest, chose, do in, drug, lawyer, tape, tapes, taping, throws, ticker, ticker tape
«The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.»
«My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Choice,
Generations
| Keywords:
Cabernet, chose, existential, faced, grew, marijuana, My Generation, religious belief, religious beliefs
«Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
for sale, fresh fish, sale, shack, sold, someplace, waterfront
«You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.»
«A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Poetry,
Speech
| Keywords:
beanbag, cadence, dullest, imagery, reminds, rhythm, sweep
«The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
Ronald, terrain, warfare, World War I
«Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
misshapen, obsessed, politically
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