Joe Gebbia Quotes

While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

Joe Gebbia

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• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • School
  • Education
  • Door

• Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

  

  Karl Rove
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Prepare

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Society
  • Humanity

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Door
  • Down
  • Hollywood

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Five

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People
  • Man
  • Past

• Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cold
  • Summer
  • Winter

• You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Doing

• Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Hand
  • Feelings

• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Opinion
  • Drama
  • Criticism

• I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal.

  

  Dennis Farina

• While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • War
  • Trust
  • Door