Peter Jennings Quotes

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Find
  • Golf
  • Easy

• The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

  

  Yukiya Amano
  • Long
  • History
  • Complicated

• In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Society
  • You
  • Educated

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Feel
  • Force
  • Novel

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Nothing

• I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Cool

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Nature

• Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Age

• The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Free
  • Weird
  • Cold

• I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Air

• Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Language
  • Spirit
  • Habit

• George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Air
  • Texas