Brent Scowcroft Quotes

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Brent Scowcroft

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• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Go
  • Away
  • Even

• Do all things with love.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Love
  • Things
  • All Things

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Language
  • Explain
  • Myth

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Man
  • Question
  • Human

• Music is to give, share.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Give
  • Share

• America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Trying
  • America
  • Best

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Courage
  • Comfortable
  • Conversations

• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Home
  • Rest

• I like women, I never run them down as somehow inferior to men, and I have a contempt for men who do. And I think, for one thing, that women are just as principled as men-but they sure as hell aren’t the same kind of principles.

  

  Jack Finney
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.'

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power

• The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • Art

• I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Trying
  • Die

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.

  

  Brendan Fletcher
  • Country

• People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Religious
  • Bible
  • Comics

• I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Humanity
  • Selfish

• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  

  George Gurdjieff
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Good
  • School
  • Creativity

• There are always 56 God-realised souls. Now, out of these 56, five are sent out into the world. But in every Avataric period these five become one, thus demonstrating the cycle when the Avatar appears in form. Therefore, the Avatar exists in the heart of these five as one.

  

  Meher Baba
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  

  Brent Scowcroft